Chief Chapo foreign correspondent returns to take us around the wide world of conflict. We get an update on the war in Gaza including the bombing of Rafah, the failing floating Pier, and the Biden administration's attempts to broker some kind o

Movie Mindset Bonus: Hundreds of Beavers with Director Mike Cheslik

1 day ago 51m 11s

We sit down with Mike Cheslik, the director of the new(ish) silent comedy action farce Hundreds of Beavers. We discuss his Wisconsin influences, ultra-DIY approach to filmmaking, making your film exactly as stupid as it needs to be, and the inh

834 - Weakness Will Get You Nowhere feat. Pendejo Time (5/20/24)

8 days ago 1h 19m

The Pendejo boys are back ostensibly to cover some new Greg Abbott shenanigans out of Texas, but we also look at the ICC seeking arrest warrants for Netanyahu and Yoav Gallant, the collapse of Red Lobster, a GOP candidate out of Missouri litera

832 - Real World Blues feat. Alex Nichols (5/13/24)

15 days ago 59m 7s

Alex is on today as we catch up with the weekend’s drama over the 2024 Eurovision song contest and ask which is more real, twitter or Eurovision (those are the only two options). Then, some disastrous new polls for the Biden campaign, Trump sea

Bonus: Inside Higher Ed

19 days ago 45m 56s

We’re joined by a former university administrator (who prefers to remain anonymous, though we have reviewed and verified their credentials) for an insider’s perspective of the current state of college administration, and a discussion of just wh

Bonus: UCLA Encampment Update

22 days ago 24m 32s

Will talks to Anny Viloria Winnett, a UAW 4811 ASE Trustee, Graduate Student Worker at the UCLA School of Public Health, and an organizer involved with UCLA’s pro-Palestinian encampments. They discuss last week’s violent assaults on the UCLA en

830 - Vat Grown Oaf feat. Trillbillies (5/6/24)

22 days ago 1h 7m

Tom, Tarence and (welcome to the show!) Aaron from the Trillbillies join us for another week of horror and spectacle around the War in Gaza. We touch on the ceasefire agreement being rejected basically as we were recording, some of the clumsy N

Movie Mindset Bonus: Interview With Director Radu Jude

27 days ago 52m 18s

Will & Hesse talk to Radu Jude, the director of the new comedy feature Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World. The film features an overworked production assistant as she drives around Bucharest shooting videos for a large multination

828 - 59’33” feat. Alex Nichols (4/29/24)

29 days ago 59m 33s

Alex joins us again to catch up on the ongoing pro-Palestinian protests and the range of responses to them, from blatant attempts to provoke the protesters, to complaining about encampments ruining your teaching of silence. Then, Kristi Noem ki

MM17: Cagney WAS Modernity!

Apr 24th, 2024 1h 50m

Welcome to Movie Mindset season 2! Will & Hesse look at two films somewhat bookending the career of the great James Cagney: Lloyd Bacon’s Footlight Parade (1933) & Billy Wilder’s One, Two, Three (1961). The first is a pre-code musical spectacul

826 - University Challenge feat. Basil Zacharia Rodriguez (4/23/24)

Apr 23rd, 2024 1h 26m

Will interviews Basil Zacharia Rodriguez, an activist and student at Columbia University involved with Columbia Justice in Palestine (SJP) and Columbia University Apartheid Divest (CUAD) about the ongoing demonstrations taking place there. They

824 - To Look and To Watch feat. Alex Nichols (4/15/24)

Apr 16th, 2024 1h 6m

Alex is back on with us today to catch up on MMA libertarians, bad DJs, and a rudely interrupted Billy Joel. We then discuss Iran’s weekend missile attack on Israel, and get Donald Trump’s somber and thoughtful remarks on the hallowed battle gr

822 - Curb Your Shogunate (4/9/24)

Apr 10th, 2024 1h 7m

Will, Felix and Amber are here to look at a startling rise in assault in Gay City. Then, a more serious look at the Israeli bombing of World Central Kitchen staffers, and how it seems the ongoing tragedy in Gaza is only made legible to certain

820 - The Neese (4/1/24)

Apr 2nd, 2024 1h 22m

Will, Felix and Amber dish on the news of the day, including the resurgence of Havana Syndrome, Erdoğan’s historic losses in recent Turkish elections, and that obnoxious article about Stanford campus activism. But honestly most of this is just

818 - Dr. Brain & the Women feat. Alex Nichols (3/25/24)

Mar 26th, 2024 1h 15m

Alex is back to look at a number of topics including: Putin’s ancient vault, the Brain podcast sex freak, UN supports ceasefire, Jewish Heaven, Trump bankrupting the RNC, Catturd’s dogs, and Royal maladies. Finally, a reading series on the Anci

816 - Streampie feat. Charles Austin (3/18/24)

Mar 19th, 2024 1h 8m

Episode 1 and Fortune Kit’s Charles stops by the show today to look at a few real life individuals who remind us of E1 characters, including the streamer Destiny, who we’ve all seen clips of getting yelled at by Norm Finkelstein last week. We a

814 - A Pond Too Far (3/11/24)

Mar 12th, 2024 59m 40s

We catch up on the biggest winners, losers, snubs and looks of the Illuminati Humiliation Ritual commonly known as the 96th Annual Academy Awards. Then speaking of Humiliation Rituals, we discuss the State of the Union, the response from GOP Se

Movie Mindset Oscar Preview ‘24

Mar 8th, 2024 1h 53m

Will and Hesse review the top films of 2023 in this special Movie Mindset Oscars Preview. We go through the major Best Picture nominees, give our takes on each, and give our picks for winners in the major categories, plus some discussion of not

BONUS: The Uncommitted Movement feat. Layla Elabed & Waleed Shahid

Mar 8th, 2024 18m 23s

Organizers Layla Elabed and Waleed Shahid join us to discuss their recent successes with the movement to vote uncommitted against Joe Biden in the ongoing democratic primaries. They lay out their goals, how they’ve been organizing, what they fe

812 - Sweeney Odd feat. Osita Nwanevu (3/5/24)

Mar 5th, 2024 55m 15s

Contributing editor for the New Republic and columnist for The Guardian Osita Nwanevu returns to the show. We look at a new New Yorker piece on Joe Biden’s last campaign, and the president’s defiant refusal to change gears, adjust policies, or

BONUS: The Octopus Murders feat. Christian Hansen & Zachary Treitz

Mar 5th, 2024 56m 35s

Blowback’s Noah Kulwin joins Will in talking to filmmakers Christian Hansen and Zachary Treitz about their new Netflix series “American Conspiracy: The Octopus Murders”. Centered around the mysterious death of journalist Danny Casolaro, the spr

810 - The Forbidden Zone feat. Alex Nichols (2/27/24)

Feb 28th, 2024 1h 12m

Alex joins us once again to look at the news of the day, starting with a more serious look at the recent self-immolation in protest of U.S. Airman Aaron Bushnell. After that some lighter fare, with some stories of the bad Biden dog, Elizabeth W

808 - Pussy in Bardo feat. Ed Zitron (2/19/24)

Feb 20th, 2024 1h 9m

Friend of the show & tech journalist Ed Zitron stops by to check in on the state of the internet. Have they cracked AI video yet? Does the VisionPro herald an en-goggled future? Just how stupid is Elon Musk, actually? We explore the end of the

806 - Hero of Wives (2/12/24)

Feb 13th, 2024 1h 13m

We give our annual post-Super Bowl report rating the spectacle and the ads, including the increasing, and increasingly funny, conservative opposition to the whole idea of “football”. Plus, a review of a tough week for Joe Biden, including a new

UNLOCKED: 805 - My First Genocide feat. Ali Abunimah (2/8/24)

Feb 12th, 2024 1h 12m

Today, executive director of the Electronic Intifada Ali Abunimah joins us to discuss the war in Palestine. We cover recent attempts to delegitimize and destroy UNRWA, atrocity propaganda, evolving capabilities of Palestinian resistance, changi