Dennis and Patrick delve into their Economic textbooks and attempt to explain the American tax system, Modern Monetary Theory, The Two Santa System, school district funding, student loan crisis and why deficits never mattered.
Modern Monetary Theory Explained
Two Santa Clauses or How The Republican Party Has Conned America for Thirty Years
Cardi B: Here’s where your tax money is going
Why America’s Schools Have A Money Problem
Patrick invites guest hosts podcaster, Roejen, from the Project Archivist podcast and author Eric Wojciehowski to discuss UFO subcultures, intelligence agency disinformation campaigns, and black budget tomfoolery. We discuss the possibility of the United States government using UFO sightings as cover for black budget projects. We also touch on the history of the UFO subculture and the seeding of agents within the subculture to monitor larger groups and political movements.
Notes
We believe Tom DeLonge, who quit blink-182 to prove aliens exist
The real Men in Black, Hollywood and the great UFO cover-up
WHAT IS UP WITH THOSE PENTAGON UFO VIDEOS?
Cassidy’s Run: The Secret Spy War Over Nerve Gas
Dennis returns from his “deathbed” and Patrick fixed the stream to allow the podcast back onto iTunes. We discuss Henry Ford, Detroit and Dearborn of the 1930’s, and the manner in which America could have or do fall into authoritarian rule. We look at how the Black Legion subverted democracy. We wrap things up with musing about liberal democracy and American national identity.
Terror in the City of Champions
Henry Ford’s Experiment to Build a Better Worker
Park project to mark Ford Massacre, one of the bloodiest events in Detroit labor history
Deep in Brazil’s Amazon, Exploring the Ruins of Ford’s Fantasyland
Identity Crisis: The 2016 Presidential Campaign and the Battle for the Meaning of America
Patrick is joined by guest host and fellow teacher, Jesse Kiefer from @jessekiefer the Grawlix Podcast to discuss the concepts in Ernest Cline’s book Ready Player One. We discuss the themes of pop culture overdosing, the future of education, and the inherent dangers of big tech.
It is All Elseworlds
Why are we trying to create Ready Player One’s terrifying, nostalgia-fueled dystopia?
Ready Player One: Ernest Cline on how his gamer fantasy became a Spielberg film
Ready Player One’ is a terrible book and it will be a terrible movie
Why won’t 541,000 young Japanese leave the house?
Study: Virtual schools tend to attract and harm lowest-performing students
Laptops And Phones In The Classroom: Yea, Nay Or A Third Way?
Patrick is joined by guest host Hinton to have a wide-ranging conversation about the areas in which internet subculture bleed into American political culture.
Gamergate
Comicsgate Is Gamergate’s Next Horrible Evolution
What the Alt-Right Learned from the Left
Worst of Reddit
Reddit Bans ‘Incel’ Group for Inciting Violence Against Women
Alternate takes on Richard M Nixon mania takes hold when we dig down into different scenarios in which “Tricky Dick” is triumphant or king mutant of the radioactive slag pile. Could he win in 1960? Been convicted on national television? Started a major international conflict in the Middle East?
1. What if Nixon won in 1960
2. A Third-Rate Burglary: No Watergate
3. Yom Kippur War
Nixon Drunk During Yom Kippur War
CIA Declassified files on Nixon Arab Israeli War
Nuclear War while Nixon Slumbered
4. Nixon On Trial
This week we delve into three athletes that were the greatest that never became the greatest.
We bring three different athletes from three different sports and wonder aloud on what their impact would be on the American landscape
How An Athlete’s Death Led To Shoddy Drug Laws
30 Years after Basketball Star Len Bias’ Death, Its Drug War Impact Endures
2. Steve Dalkowski
A look back at Steve Dalkowski, one of baseball’s most mythical fireballers
High Heat: History of the Fast Ball
3. Joe Don Looney
The Greatest Player Who Never Was
Paper Lion: Confessions of a Last-String Quarterback
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