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/wetwiredBy Julian Paul Butt & Sean Ondes

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)…

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 targetin…

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 catalogpatreon.com/wetwiredPropaganda Due …

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 w…

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-shootershttps://www.texasobserver.org/ice-prosecutor-dallas-white-supremacist-x-account/By Julian Paul Butt & Sean Ondes

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…

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 …

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.patreon.c…

**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. S…

The first couple days of the Trump White house, Elon's fascistic cosplay, and advice on how to cope.By Julian Paul Butt & Sean Ondes

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…

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/wetwiredA few new things in store for us include a new president!…

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/wetwiredWe 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 whi…

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/wetwiredCatch up with us on the Wetwired Discord.discord.gg/fr62mpUy5cFind us online:Twitter at twitter.com/wetwiredpodInstagram at instagram.com/wetwiredpodBluesky at bsky.app/profile/wetwired.bsky.socia…

Subscribe on Patreon to listen to this episode and every premium only episode for $5 a month.patreon.com/wetwiredWe 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/…

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/wetwiredThe ICC named them as “co-perpetrators for committing the acts jointly with others: the war crime of starvation…

Subscribe on Patreon to listen to this episode and every premium only episode for $5 a month.patreon.com/wetwiredDems 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…

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/wetwiredPete Hegseth, Trump’s pick for Secretary of Def…

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 prem…

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 e…

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 comi…

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,…

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/wetwiredPseudoarchaeology has been an almost bottoml…

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/wetwiredBy Julian Paul Butt & Sean Ondes

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 Confidenti…

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 mont…

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 mon…

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/w…

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…

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/wetwiredBy Julian Paul Butt & Sean Ondes

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.…

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/wetwiredNever mind their complete failure to even try to devise policies that might improve the average voter's life, such as redu…

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/wet…

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.patr…

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/wetwiredSome reading…

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 premiu…

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 protest…

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/wetwiredMusic:Airgl…

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…

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 …

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/wetwiredSome reading:https://aeon.co/essays/why-long…

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 suspicion of the 1990s and assured us that there real…

Someone is radicalizing our kids. Who is behind this? What are their motives? There appears to be an unidentified individual or an entire group of them who are actively working to radicalize our precious, vulnerable students. This is a serious issue that requires immediate investigation and action to protect our youth and ensure their safety.Or it …

We're talking far-right extremism with Teddy Wilson. Teddy is an investigative journalist based in Texas. He covers extremism in the US and abroad.Teddy gives us an overview of extremism in the US, how J6 rioters are being portrayed as political prisoners, and a preview of his upcoming projects.Support us on Patreon: patreon.com/wetwiredFind Teddy …

We’re talking about Max Azzarello, who on April 19th set himself on fire outside the Manhattan Criminal Court where jury selection was concluding for Trump’s Stormy Daniels/hush money trial.In the final post on his Substack titled "I have set myself on fire outside the Trump Trial," Max Azzarello explained that “[t]his extreme act of protest is to …

Sean here with historian Thomas Lecaque to talk about everything wrong with Alex Garland's incoherent movie Civil War. Jesse Plemons is NOT one of those things.Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/wetwiredThomas on Twitter:https://twitter.com/tlecaqueSean's review of Civil War on Letterboxd:https://letterboxd.com/sondes/film/civil-war-2024/Mu…

Maybe a crack in the up until now unquestioned US support of Israel's genocidal campaign in Gaza. All it took was the deaths of 7 people connected to a celebrity chef. Israel murdering 30,000 civilians didn't do it.Israel has somehow managed to be the top recipient of US foreign aid for the last few decades. It was only bumped from the number one s…

Maybe a crack in the up until now unquestioned US support of Israel's genocidal campaign in Gaza. All it took was the deaths of 7 people connected to a celebrity chef. Israel murdering 30,000 civilians didn't do it.Israel has somehow managed to be the top recipient of US foreign aid for the last few decades. It was only bumped from the number one s…