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Added 2025-01-21 22:32:20 +0000 UTCCovering the Inauguration and everything that's happened so far since
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The republican space drive is funny to me because don't Qanon people like not believe in the moon landing?
L
2025-02-03 10:26:48 +0000 UTCHuge miss with that dune slander
Hayden Ellis
2025-01-28 02:12:19 +0000 UTCLOINOs: Loyal Oppositions In Name Only
SHEEBCORE
2025-01-27 14:40:21 +0000 UTCNever mind I listened for another 5 minutes and got the context. Leaving it up as penance. Carry on Tardy Boyz
Benji
2025-01-26 21:05:45 +0000 UTCI love you freaks but your Luddite pessimism is bumming me out. Space communists for life. Another good ep
Benji
2025-01-26 20:59:14 +0000 UTCit shouldn’t even be a gulf! it’s the Mexican Sea!! it’s 3x larger than the Black Sea
synthia plat
2025-01-26 17:36:33 +0000 UTCTom, you and I are the same. I too suffered from panic attacks. I believed I had breast cancer at 8 years old (fyi the person writing this is a dude). I was told by a "Christian psychologist" that I was either, in his words, "schizophrenic or demonically oppressed" turns out I was neither. I was just idk...a traumatized child who grew up in a abusive household that used Christianity as medication. Look up the 7 steps to spiritual freedom. That was this psychologist recommendation for treatment. I wouldn't suggest it to anyone but you could try it if you're still concerned.
Jennifer Hammerhead
2025-01-26 11:50:54 +0000 UTCSpeaking of being a knower, you should check out the band KNOWER, they're incredible
mexicanhalloween .
2025-01-26 04:45:24 +0000 UTCI thought the TB thing was a joke but then just read there’s an actual TB outbreak in Kansas… does Terence really have TB?
Emily Richardson
2025-01-25 14:40:12 +0000 UTCI know Eggers have always wanted to make/remake Nosferatu, so it's a passion project of his. I think his charm comes from making original stories in a very aesthetically and environmentally (especially in terms of morality) restricted space. I think I feel about it the way I feel about representational art on youtube, like when someone spends a month carving a nude woman in a waterfall out of a solid tree trunk. Yeah, it's technically impressive, and I don't have any real problem with it, but it's very "..ok". //The RedLetterMedia review went over a bunch of audience feedback that whined about how it was basically a straight up porno, and it's very annoying to me that a whole new generation is growing up with sexual politics in movies that are identical to reactionaries like Focus on the Family, with the only real difference being that they're not homophobic. I don't know what to say to anyone who earnestly complains that the nudity in, let's say, Oppenheimer made them "very uncomfortable". Like, fucking grow up? Do you have a panic attack everytime you go pee and catch a glimpse of your own genitals? This world will not tolerate you being this fragile and histrionic about these basic things. It will crush you.
Jesper Ohlsson
2025-01-25 14:21:46 +0000 UTCThe audience is all of those "monster fucker permit" carriers who were disappointed watching The Shape of Water (2017) after it was being hyped that we were going to see a caked-up fish man getting it on. I can only imagine Eggers was one of them.
Matthew Darnell
2025-01-25 14:14:53 +0000 UTCGreat ep, more White Tarence spooky keyboard music.
Kevin Doyle
2025-01-25 11:35:43 +0000 UTCThis isn't to disparage Tarence's usual output (and I know this isn't the episode it pertains to, it was in the free ep previous to this one) but for some reason he felt so much more compelling when it sounded like he was dying to consumption. Something in my subconscious was exponentially stirred as if I was really hearing the last few weak words of a dying man and it really enriched his delivery. Good stuff consider giving Tarence tuberculosis next time 👍
William
2025-01-25 07:29:07 +0000 UTCIt has to be Terrance
Weston King
2025-01-25 00:53:15 +0000 UTCWho does the sick music interludes that’s in some eps?
Mmi42069
2025-01-25 00:11:21 +0000 UTCLove this episode and the title makes a lot of sense
Kenneth Merriman
2025-01-24 22:30:33 +0000 UTCThe Dune take on the new episode made me physically ill
Joseph Mabrey
2025-01-24 20:29:29 +0000 UTCThere's a kitty-cat fairly early on in Nosferatu, for those that may be on the fence. //EDIT: I give the movie a solid B. Technically well executed, but also a bit like walking in on someone's hobby project and not really relating to the weight it has to its creator. Reminded me a little of Beowulf from 2007 in a "I get that this is quote unquote important, but also, is that it? Why make this for an audience?"
Jesper Ohlsson
2025-01-24 13:37:09 +0000 UTCHe literally said “I could shove a camel through a needle before any of you motherfuckers go to heaven” and you still simp for muskler and the pig man
Chapo has always branded nu metal as right wing
2025-01-24 02:11:29 +0000 UTCI was thinking about the blasphemy thing in the shower this morning. I haven’t willingly set foot in a church in over a decade but I still get a little “my culture is not your costume” about it. I think all the time about the ghandi quote “I like your Christ not your Christians.” I’ll point that out to my family all the time too, that they would have hated Jesus. An unemployed brown guy hanging out with hookers and lepers and criticizing the government and religious leaders… read your own fucking book sometime goddamn.
Chapo has always branded nu metal as right wing
2025-01-24 02:03:01 +0000 UTC😏
Chapo has always branded nu metal as right wing
2025-01-24 01:56:53 +0000 UTCI've only heard bivoac when talking about ants or a Magic the Gathering card or two.
Spiders in a Trenchcoat
2025-01-24 00:54:18 +0000 UTCWho else is bivouackin it to this ep rn?
cccph
2025-01-24 00:48:40 +0000 UTCGreat episode. I’m talking to this podcast way too much on my bike ride to work. I’m not against new technology I’m against widely adopting technologies before we understand the broad implications of their adoption. How do they interact with our biochemistry, our feelings, the ecosystem, other technologies. Those things can take decades or centuries to understand. And we discount technologies that are thousands of years old as simple without considering how they made be refined.
BookMisser
2025-01-23 23:54:14 +0000 UTCBtw I think a big part of the anti-dei push may be aimed at women bc more and more they have higher wages in hetero-situations. Well a little break from creepers was nice. Good luck to all the diversities out there. 🍀
BookMisser
2025-01-23 23:19:33 +0000 UTCMussolini was a big fan of renaming places to make them more "Italian". Good to know the fascist playbook is being followed so well
Isaac True
2025-01-23 21:20:59 +0000 UTCIt would be awesometo have Tanya back for the anniversary
ShadyPinesMa
2025-01-23 18:55:22 +0000 UTCIt's not a bad idea to start habitually brushing up on which legitimate sites can still deliver medication to you for self-medicational purposes (and which sites are still trustworthy; these things can change from year to year). It's also not a bad idea to start building an online community network with other parents of trans-kids, which - on top of emotional support - would also help with things like securing (or helping others secure) necessary medication if/when they become more restricted. I'm sure you've already done something like this, but its worth mentioning these "planning for the future" things now, in a semi-public space. I don't see practical issues like securing medication becoming easier in the forseeable future, but it's still far from impossible. So, it's a good time, now, to establish a network "just in case". Best case scenario, things stay somewhat fine, and you just end up with some new friends. For all its faults, small Reddit-communities (by subject or highly specific, geographical location) could be a great starting point for something like this. Take care.
Jesper Ohlsson
2025-01-23 18:44:02 +0000 UTCThe idea that Biden is autistic doesn't work because the only thing he's ever been good at his whole life is social skills.
Vincent
2025-01-23 18:16:37 +0000 UTCHell yeah comrade
Vincent
2025-01-23 18:15:14 +0000 UTCMy kiddo, too. It's time to stick together ♥️
Emily Epstein (unrelated to the bad guy)
2025-01-23 16:30:58 +0000 UTCIt's common with tourettes for tics to feel compulsive, it's uncomfortable not to tic, and therapy often involves ways of fighting that impulse and allowing that uncomfortability to pass without engaging in the tic
Cole Heideman
2025-01-23 16:11:18 +0000 UTCOn your points about a new movement—you guys should check out https://frso.org/program/
Michael
2025-01-23 16:04:11 +0000 UTC"The politics of biology" is such an important point. The eugenics themes in science and technology right now are a huge pathology we are not engaging with forcefully enough.
Carolyn
2025-01-23 13:39:43 +0000 UTCThe trans stuff is so scary. My son is trans and he fucking exists and lives and loves no matter what these fascist freaks say or do. Definitely a Do Something situation.
Holly
2025-01-23 07:20:09 +0000 UTC@tom my partner listened to this episode and they said the way you describe tourette's and anxiety sounded like ocd. not to cross a parasocial boundary but wanted to help out a friend in case it's helpful. much love
eve
2025-01-23 05:31:19 +0000 UTCTom spoke for me this episode. My hatred for John Fetterman is boundless, especially since the dipshit is my Senator.
Kevin McNamee
2025-01-23 02:47:15 +0000 UTCThese trump EOs remind me of Turkmenistan
Sara
2025-01-23 01:50:57 +0000 UTCLoved all the Tom on this one. Speak up man!!
Shaelan Donovan
2025-01-22 22:31:43 +0000 UTCNo me gusta ai
Sai
2025-01-22 20:52:18 +0000 UTCStay safe
BookMisser
2025-01-22 19:42:15 +0000 UTCI don’t know what his kinks are but getting close to him in a relationship’s got to be as erotic as watching a snail squeeze eggs out from its face and as emotionally compelling as being a crew member on the event horizon.
BookMisser
2025-01-22 19:41:38 +0000 UTCLoved learning about Tom’s life. Felt like an antidote to the hyper-cynicism and alienation of the political moment: someone being god damn real. Bravo Trillbillies
Kaz jennifer Louise Lasker Schwarz
2025-01-22 19:34:01 +0000 UTCSorry that looks nuts long.
BookMisser
2025-01-22 19:32:07 +0000 UTCMy first feeling of unease in the US was when the CDC briefly told the public that masks were ineffective in a bid to save masks for health workers. Obviously health workers were being coughed on in close quarters by very sick people and we needed to save as many masks as we could for them. But the ramifications of lying briefly to try to do that were huge. I also think it is important to understand that even experts were debating the implications of vaccine trials. It was certainly clear that they reduced serious illness (huge) and that they did not provide sterilizing immunity. But more ambiguous was how to interpret post vaccination antibody levels and the T-cell response. How frequently vaccination would be justified and what schedule should be used is also something that experts debate. You should assume that for a new virus the recommended vaccination schedule would be adjusted as new information comes in (starting with one of several possible approaches suggested by the research). The virus is also adapting to us and to our medical interventions and our behavior changes. So the actual disease may be spreading easier but killing less often and reducing vaccine efficacy (as an example). Phrases like “believe science” are so damaging because science is a labor. It is not a static canon of facts. Scientists labor to collect and interpret, review, disseminate, reproduce evidence in a dynamic world. The world should push back and offer skepticism towards science and scientists should be able to defend their assertions. But scientists and all of us have to take risks and fight for the collective good sometimes. When the times come to do something that involves personal risk based on conclusions drawn at public research institutions those institutions should treat us with respect and give us their unvarnished conclusions and ask us to take those risks with as much knowledge and consent as possible. It is so important that science and medicine earn that trust year round.
BookMisser
2025-01-22 19:28:37 +0000 UTCAs an ex Christian, the blatant hypocrisy and idolatry of this fascist also makes me very deeply uncomfortable. Even if I don’t believe anymore, it’s still triggers me. And Christians just don’t seem to give a fuck
Raya Roberts
2025-01-22 19:03:35 +0000 UTCNot if people keep taking pot shots at him
BookMisser
2025-01-22 19:01:58 +0000 UTCThe gods must be crazy 3 : squirrels with condom bindles
Evan
2025-01-22 18:44:13 +0000 UTCSo damn bleak.
Sonicthunder35
2025-01-22 17:26:02 +0000 UTCGet well soon!!
Courtney
2025-01-22 15:31:17 +0000 UTCTom mentioned that someone prayed "trump's will be done." This is the second mention I've heard about that on the podcasts I listen to, but I'm having trouble finding that. Do you have any more details about who said it?
Kyle
2025-01-22 15:00:37 +0000 UTCChristians in America are reinventing witchcraft and telling themselves it's being a good Christian.
Jonathan Howard
2025-01-22 14:56:39 +0000 UTCElon is named after a protagonist in a white supremacist sci-fi book about colonizing Mars. He literally sees it as his birthright.
Jonathan Howard
2025-01-22 13:31:46 +0000 UTCAustralian statistician here to talk about vaccine efficacy and media discourse. There was a lot of miscommunication, but also I think that the US had a particularly pathological mix of ideology and media decisions which lead to the polarisation of the vaccine discussion into "it's poison" and "it's a miracle cure". There was much less of that here in Australia, though the idea that we'd all get vaccinated (and we did! >90% got two shots here in the first year if I remember right) and then return to normalcy still happened. Among science and health people the role of the vaccine was understood as not a panacea, but a way to reduce death and serious disease. Efficacy in this context isn't just about fewer infections, it's also about less severe symptoms for people who are infected and I think that aspect was just absent from much of the discourse. I think a big part of it is an unwillingness in media to talk about statistics with nuance. Anything with nuance but specifically statistics because that's hard and it's not going to win you viewers. There's been a lot of soul-searching in public health fields about that failure of communication in the following years. A good chunk of it is the media environment, a bunch was the government in the US fucking up, but there's also self-blame from public health researchers for not being more in the public eye from before the pandemic even began. Most public health people work with government or the medical field rather than with the public, which means that there wasn't The Talking Face for public health when one was needed independent of Trump's government. For the curious let's talk some numbers for that statistical nuance. The WHO initially said that a vaccine which offered 50% protection against infection would be good enough, I believe most of the early ones were 70% or higher for infection, 80% or above for severe/lethal disease. Those are relative figures though, so if 10% of your population would get COVID, and 10% of your infected population would have severe or lethal COVID, you reduce those figures by the relevant percentages: 10%×(100-70)% gives you 3% of your total population bring infected. Of the infected population, 10%×(100-80)% = 2% have severe/lethal disease. That puts the percentage of the overall population who experience severe/lethal disease at 3%×2% = 0.06% down from 1% (the maths makes more sense as decimals I promise). That reduction to 0.06% looks much less impressive, but is probably a couple of hundred thousand lives in the immediate term. The rollout of vaccinations was fucked up, made deeply and intentionally unequal by people looking to profit from it, and deliberately undermined for political gain. However, the existence of multiple viable vaccines for a novel virus within 6 months of the pandemic being declared is a remarkable achievement never seen before in human history. We can't readily calculate how many lives were directly or indirectly saved by it, but I'd hazard a guess at millions. There's new evidence coming out that vaccination also reduced the risk of long COVID, so the disabling effects were also lessened. We can't lose track of the achievement, we just have to ensure that next time we have a more equitable way of dealing with the rollout. I'm sure that'll be so easy...
UltraCoil
2025-01-22 13:07:29 +0000 UTCEternal return. Makes you wonder if you actually died and went to the no-no place (heck)
William
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Nicolas Leithen
2025-01-22 11:54:52 +0000 UTCEverything feels so low energy that even the scandals are just re-treads. The "did Elon do a nazi salute" is basically the "Did Laura Ingram do a nazi salute?", and then there's all this tedious discourse about it, where nobody can know for sure if these people are bad until they do a literal nazi salute. Till then, they are saved on a technicality. I don't even have to have access to CNN to know that they're already on the phone with someone who doubled in body-language and german history, and their assessment will be inconclusive, but "no doubt worrying". The whole country feels hungover. We didn't even get a third (fourth?) assassination attempt! It's bullshit.
Jesper Ohlsson
2025-01-22 08:29:08 +0000 UTCJoe Biden is a fuckin taylor Sheridan ass president
laihall
2025-01-22 06:58:07 +0000 UTCtrump's a pussy, bet he won't even repeal the national firearms act 🙄
Sai
2025-01-22 05:36:07 +0000 UTCY'all got me thinking about how space programs are full of Nazis. Was there an operation Paperclip part 2 electric boogaloo that brought Nazis from apartheid South Africa
Andrew Ratcliffe
2025-01-22 05:13:06 +0000 UTCAccording to an apocryphal legend, the fascist gesture was based on a customary greeting which was allegedly used in ancient Rome. 1 However, no Roman text describes such a gesture, and the Roman works of art that display salutational gestures bear little resemblance to the modern so-called "Roman" salute. The gesture was based on a painting from 1798
Harley Hirst
2025-01-22 04:27:47 +0000 UTCWelcome, pal
Trillbilly Worker's Party
2025-01-22 04:06:00 +0000 UTCI will never get sick of the boys apologizing for talking over each other. They’re so polite to each other, it’s so sweet.
Emily Richardson
2025-01-22 03:56:24 +0000 UTCIt's interesting to hear Aaron say that about pogroms because I was just talking to my very upset 15 year old child about a Project 2025 video they just watched. I had to tell them that they are essentially a room full of idiots trying to fumble around in the dark around a room they've never been inside of. I'm not saying they can't or won't do anything or that it won't affect anyone, but trying to calm a freaked out 15 year old who was 7 years old for the first trump inauguration it's just easier for me to go to *these people are idiots.* sigh. Here's to hoping.
Ralley Taura
2025-01-22 03:46:37 +0000 UTC"we can finally say fag and retard again" Pretty wild to be asked to believe that there was a time when those were actually off the table for some finance-cunt.
Jesper Ohlsson
2025-01-22 03:36:37 +0000 UTCJust discovered you guys. Listened to all your Landman episodes and HAD to sub lmao. Also the leftism is great
Matthew Shaffer
2025-01-22 03:34:09 +0000 UTCWe have flying squirrels in our apartment building’s walls, they pop into our apartment, randomly. I’ll be squaring up next time.
Jilly
2025-01-22 03:15:30 +0000 UTCAmistad in Space
Luke S
2025-01-22 03:01:50 +0000 UTCAre you moving at relativistic speeds by any chance? Try a lower percentage of the speed of light. 👍
Luke S
2025-01-22 02:56:56 +0000 UTCfinals week pancake line lord ya just took me back
stephanie morgan
2025-01-22 02:55:01 +0000 UTCMisophonia warning again
E
2025-01-22 02:42:20 +0000 UTC“It’s some combination of that and Magic Johnson’s announcement” covers a multitude of sins.
Norma Louise
2025-01-22 02:21:03 +0000 UTCUm, it’s ACTUALLY just slowed by .15 with added reverb and if you like, i dunno, maybe read some THEORY you’d be able to notice that on your own
William
2025-01-22 01:38:33 +0000 UTCJust ask them who got the Gaza ceasefire done
William
2025-01-22 01:31:18 +0000 UTCMBS probably told Trump about how they don’t say “Persian Gulf” in the Kingdom
Breakaway
2025-01-22 01:25:26 +0000 UTCThere isn’t much point to subjecting oneself to social media, now more than ever.
Elfriede
2025-01-22 01:16:53 +0000 UTCIt’s because the Democratic Party can never fail. It can only be failed. Starve them of donations. No money for collaborators.
Zach H.
2025-01-22 01:15:42 +0000 UTCI've unironically logged off since last weekend. When I look at any of the social media sites, it doesn't matter which, it's just non-stop comments about how guilty leftists and non voters were...how they're personally responsible for what's going to come, and so on. It's all so comically evil and devoid of any amount of empathy. It can be funny watching a liberal turn fascist in isolation, but I saw hundreds of them in the span of a few days, and I can't in good health keep scrolling .
Sean Dickey
2025-01-22 00:59:15 +0000 UTCGiven the conversation, should we refer to Elon as Rhodesiod American from now on?
Zach H.
2025-01-22 00:59:06 +0000 UTCTruly do love your program and look forward to every episode. You all share a new perspective and also provide some levity and make me laugh so I think you are achieving your goal.
Jesscon
2025-01-22 00:44:56 +0000 UTCBut wait. First of all.. that dude talkin to Trump in the ass-less chaps has a USA flag tail comin out there..right? Where's that comin' from? Bro's gotta an accessorized butt plug in talkin the next leader of the FREE world! Love it. The furry demographic is still free. Not sure about all the butt plug folks.. but Trump's a closet furry?
Chicken Man Cory
2025-01-22 00:39:28 +0000 UTCThe transhealthcare bans and worse stuff is almost certainly gonna go forward. Y'all should probably talk about us sooner rather than later, especially about how many trans women are fleeing to blue states or other countries entirely. Its been happening for a while now, but its been kicked into overdrive since the election.
Moonwatcher13
2025-01-22 00:03:37 +0000 UTCThis podcast felt sped up by like .10. Or I'm that fatigued where sounds are sped/slowed. That happens sometimes with me.
Spiders in a Trenchcoat
2025-01-21 23:55:36 +0000 UTCLower classes gonna be space slaves for the billionaires.
Cory Waring
2025-01-21 23:27:31 +0000 UTCLiterally Terrance and Aaron every episode, "no no no no no you go ahead" a few times until one of them goes. I love it.
AL
2025-01-21 23:23:17 +0000 UTCIt’s only truly nazi if it comes from the nazi region of Germany. Otherwise it’s technically just sparkling fascist
Chapo has always branded nu metal as right wing
2025-01-21 23:00:40 +0000 UTCI can’t wait for the episode where the boys all try to talk at the same time and come to a polite Mexican standoff
William
2025-01-21 22:48:15 +0000 UTCThank god - for a second, there, thought I was going to have to sit in silence with my thoughts
William
2025-01-21 22:34:10 +0000 UTCAaron!!! Great to hear. Also good to hear HypoTomdriac is spiritually oppressed.
AL
2025-01-21 22:34:08 +0000 UTC
