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Wetwired
by Sean & Jules
Podcast about culture, control, and empire
Episodes
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Episode 97: Meatball Business
As a way to wrap up our Cold as ICE series about the creation of an American paramilitary force answering only to Trump, we wanted to find some solid historical examples where secret police forces were dismantled. The idea was to give some reasons to hope that things could be better. The problem...
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Episode 96: Hail Eris! feat Bob Campbell and Gabriel Kennedy
We're joined by first time guest Bobby Campbell, creator of the beautiful comic book adaptation of Robert Anton Wilson's Illuminatus! Trilogy, Tales of the Illuminatus! as well as many, many other wonderful things. We also have back with us long time friend of the show Gabriel Kennedy, author of...
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Premium Episode 72: Emergency Pool Repair (Sample)
We kick this one off some host lore about a guy who ended a friendship over the What the Bleep Do We Know? movie. It only goes downhill from there. For some reason, I kept calling Representative Anna Paulina Luna "Rep. Lujan". There's no excuse for my behavior and I'll be docking my own pay for...
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Episode 95: It's Disclosure Day, Again
That’s right everybody, Disclosure Day came and went and not much really happened. The reactions to the grifter ufologist hype cycle have been entirely predictable and hilarious. We’re talking too much about the substance of the UAP/UFO files released by the government. Mostly because how much…
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Premium Episode 71: He Came from the Internet / I Always Wanted to Be a Groyper, Part 5 (Sample)
We're talking about the Right's still rising reactionary star, Nicholas Joseph Fuentes. Fuentes’ videos posted on Rumble are regularly watched by 100s of thousands of people, but aside from a brief brush with Donald Trump as a dinner guest of Kanye West, he's been almost completely dismissed by...
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Premium Episode 70: Party in Pristine Park, USA (Sample)
Welcome to Pristine Park, Ohio where the beer is light, the fireworks are silent, and everyone parties like it's the 4th of July, Polish style. This is a sample of a premium episode. Sign up to listen to the entire episode. patreon.com/wetwired I ambush Jules with a surprise recording session…
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Episode 94: Star Trek Socialism feat Aaron Thorpe
Damn, this was a fun chat! Today we have Aaron Thorpe from The Trillbillies with us! Aaron’s hanging out with us today to talk about two of my favorite things: Star Trek and socialism. Subscribe on Patreon to support making this show, get premium only episodes, and listen to our entire back...
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Episode 93: Iran So Far Away
In week 4 or so of Trump’s bumblings around in the Middle East, and after declaring victory a couple of times already, Trump has said that he’s willing to end the war as long as Iran agrees to just put things back the way they were before the US started bombing them and assassinated their leader....
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Premium Episode 69: Cyberbullying Nazis / I Always Wanted to Be a Groyper, Part 4
Last time we trashed the standard narrative that modern conservative movements are organic, bottom-up uprisings. Instead, what has appeared to be grassroots radicalization and mobilization is more often a soup of grievance politics stirred by elite capture and institutional control. Conservative...
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Episode 92: Good Fences
We get into the first five episodes of the HBO series Neighbors. What begins as a collection of petty disputes over lawns, fences, animals, and property lines quickly reveals something much deeper: a culture defined by paranoia, hyper-individualism, and the slow collapse of shared reality....
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Episode 91: Building a Base / I Always Wanted to Be a Groyper, Part 3
It might seem counterintuitive but conservative movements in the US are repeatedly shaped by donors, think tanks, and institutions not organic grassroots uprisings. Name the popular movement and 9 times out of 10 there's money interests behind it. And when the movement is genuinely organic, it's...
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Premium Episode 69: Down on the Baby Farm (Sample)
We talk about important culture war fights that conservatives will always think are destroying the fabric of America before moving on to something that conservatives couldn’t care less about—a global cabal of ultra wealthy pedophiles, and it’s dead ringleader, Jeffrey Epstein. This is a sample of…
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Episode 90: Law and Order / I Always Wanted To Be a Groyper, Part 2
Last episode, we talked about the brewing conflict between what currently passes for mainstream conservatism and the schizophrenic reactionary Groyper politics of Nick Fuentes. Subscribe on Patreon to support making this show, get premium only episodes, and listen to our entire back catalog....
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Premium Episode 67: Wordsmithing and Workshopping / I Always Wanted To Be a Groyper, part 1 (Sample)
The ground is definitely shifting in the conservative base. From the Republican staffers who had their private texts between each other leaked revealing A LOT of racist messages to Nick Fuentes showing up on one mainstream conservative show after another, it's obvious that many Republicans are...
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Episode 89: The Veiled Prophet Secret Society feat Devin Thomas O'Shea
We're with Devin Thomas O'Shea, author of The Veiled Prophet: Secret Societies, White Supremacy, and the Struggle for St. Louis. Most of Devin's book surrounds a Gilded Age secret society founded in St. Louis in the late 19th century. The story would probably begin and end in St. Louis if that...
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It's in a Book! 01: Illuminatus Trilogy feat Gabriel Kennedy
Welcome, everyone, to the inaugural episode of It’s in a Book! “Take a look, it’s in a book…” This is our new on again, off again podcast within a podcast. Instead of goofing off with the news and making fun of the public figures who’re trying to make life unlivable for the rest of us, we’re…
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Premium Episode 66: Donroe Doctrine (Sample)
We get into the media coverage of Venezuela, hot takes on Maduro’s kidnapping, Denmark's getting nervous as Trump eyes Greenland, 19th century style US imperialism, and the breakdown of all the international norms we all love. This is a sample of a premium episode. Sign up to listen to the entire...
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Episode 88: Hyper Exploiting Paradise
We're with Anthony Banua-Simon, director of the documentary Cane Fire, to talk about the colonization and exploitation of the Hawai'ian people first by corporations, then by the US military, followed by Hollywood, and finally by tourism. Few places hold as large a place in the American…
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Premium Episode 65: They Fought the Law (Sample)
We hope everyone is having a good holiday season and you’re all getting ready for the solstice, Christmas, Hanukkah, the date of the Buddha’s enlightenment (some time last week), or whatever dates you mark. This is a sample of a premium episode. Sign up to listen to the entire episode....
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Premium Episode 36: Trust No One feat Bradley Plaisier and Robert Skvarla (Unlocked)
We're teaming up with Bradley Plaisier and Robert Skvarla to talk about the show that 30 years ago introduced the normies to alien abductions, secret government programs, and global conspiracies. Somehow, the X-Files was exactly the right show for its time. It harnessed the untapped cynicism and...
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Premium Episode 20: Growing Up in the Children of God Cult feat Daniella Mestyanek Young (Unlocked)
We’re joined by Daniella Mestyanek Young, the author of Uncultured. She was born a third generation member of an influential family, within The Family International, better known as the Children of God cult. She escaped at fifteen, put herself through school, and graduated from college as...
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Episode 87: She’s (Still) Speaking
First up, we have some Jordan Peterson news. His daughter says he’s under spiritual attack after being exposed to a moldy attic. We also cover some of the comments Kamala Harris have been making during the book tour for her 2024 election memoir 107 Days. Reassuringly, pro-Palestine protesters…
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Premium Episode 64: We'll Fight and We'll Win / Starship Troopers (Sample)
We’re here on the eve of the end of America as we’ve come to know it, and the two of us thought, “what could be a more fitting way to honor everything we love about this country than to do one of the most American things possible?” That would be watching a movie and then arguing about it. This is…
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Episode 86: Reply Guys at the End of History feat Jacob Gregor
Independent filmmaker Jacob Gregor joins us to talk about his bleak and unsettling new film End of History. We talk with Jacob about his discomforting vision of a nameless young man who drives cross country to Alaska listening to nothing but podcasts and AM radio. Subscribe on Patreon to support...
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Premium Episode 63: Ban the Internet (Sample)
This is a sample of a premium episode. Sign up to listen to the entire episode. patreon.com/wetwired Cops, laws, prisons, and the military are political violence. Crackdowns on strikers and protesters are political violence. Poverty, hunger, and crime are all political violence. The state's will…
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Premium Episode 27: Miss Me Yet feat Christopher Bell (Archives release)
This is our first conversation with independent filmmaker Christopher Jason Bell. We with him again about the feature length release, Failed State, which he co-directed. Miss Me Yet is a chronicle of the George W. Bush presidency, which means that it also documents the early days of the War on...
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Premium Episode 13: Esther Hicks & the 100 Ghosts of Self Help (Archives release)
I guess we could call these archive releases "ReWired". This episode was extremely educational for us. It was part of a group of episodes where we dove into the background and origin story of a person or people who've had an outsized impact on shaping the way many Americans as well as people...
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Episode 85: QAnon's D.C. Prophecy
You might think QAnon has faded away, or maybe has been just laying dormant for the last couple of years. You'd be wrong. It’s been there all along, stewing and metastasizing beneath the surface, mostly. You can find people decoding the news all over Telegram still, and it’s absolutely thriving...
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Episode 84: AI Soulmates (aka The Wireborn)
First up, we talk about Sam Altman’s overhyped and supremely disappointing release of ChatGPT 5. Then we get into the AI hype machine that has the potential to take down the US economy when the bubble finally pops. We wrap up with a dip into r/AISoulmates, the community for the Wireborn and the...
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Premium Episode 62: Cold as ICE, Part 6 (Sample)
This is Part 6 of Cold as ICE. This is a sample of a premium episode. Sign up to listen to the entire episode. patreon.com/wetwired We go over the ballooning Homeland Security budget and ICE's unprecedented expansion. None of this looks good for anyone in the US but as always with things like…
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Episode 83: Crazy Pants
Breaking from our sabbatical to talk about Dems cowardly criticisms of Israel’s manufactured famine in Gaza after spending 18 months supporting the genocide and Bernie Sander’s failed legislation to restrict military aid to Israel. We also get into the resurrected 2 state solution as a platitude...
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Episode 82: Another Wonderful Secret
We start off with a truly bizarre story about a yeti blood oath and some of the different types of priests. Then we get into the MAGA mindset and talk about how all the old Epstein stories are new again, why Trump's distractions aren't working like they used to, and why his lunatic base just…
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Episode 81: The Great Disappointment
We kick off this episode talking about the terrible politics surrounding the floods in Texas. As if the mass death tragedy isn’t enough, the crank caucus has decided that antique emergency systems isn’t grabby enough for a headline. Instead, they're pushing a new weather conspiracy and claiming...
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Premium Episode 61: Cold as ICE, Part 5 (Sample)
This is Part 5 of Cold as ICE. This is a sample of a premium episode. Sign up to listen to the entire episode. patreon.com/wetwired In today’s episode, we begin with the recent spectacle in MacArthur Park in an LA community with a large immigrant population. We move on to talk about dehumanizing...
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Episode 80: Half Measures
We talk about the homicidal attention seeking of the White House that demands Trump did a very, very good job destroying the Iranian nuclear program. We also cover the hysterical reactions from both Republican and Democrats to Mamdani winning the Democrat mayoral primary. Our conclusion is that...
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Episode 79: Upside Down S.M.I2.L.E. feat Gabriel Kennedy
We chat with Gabriel Kennedy, author of Chapel Perilous: The Life and Thought Crimes of Robert Anton Wilson, about Wilson and Timothy Leary’s 1970s and 80s hope-fueled tech utopianism and what's left of it in the age of Musk and Thiel’s tech-fash dystopia. Find Gabriel online and buy his...
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Episode 78: High Agency Males
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…
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Episode 77: The Prison Industry feat Bianca Tylek
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...
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Premium Episode 60: Cold as ICE, Part 4 (Sample)
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...
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Episode 76: Son of SAM
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...
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Premium Episode 59: Cold as ICE, Part 3 (Sample)
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…
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Episode 75: ChatGPT Induced Psychosis
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
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Premium Episode 58: Cold as ICE, Part 2 (Sample)
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…
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Episode 74: Cold as ICE, Part 1
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...
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Premium Episode 57: Waste of Space (Sample)
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
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Episode 73: Liberation Day Cancelled
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…
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Premium Episode 56: Top Missile Guys (Sample)
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,...
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Episode 72: Money, Guns, and the Vatican feat Gabriel Kennedy
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...
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Premium Episode 55: Engorged
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...
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Episode 71: Glomar Responder
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/
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