It's wonderful, and complicated, and beautiful, and confusing but it's Reddit vs Wallstreet and Reddit seems to have won. We breakdown what exactly happened with the stock market, and hedge funds, and GameStop, and a bunch of people from that website, Reddit, where you can find memes and recipes and naked people.

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Robert Reich - https://youtu.be/pmdivrgllf4

Paul Gosar - https://twitter.com/DrPaulGosar/status/1354917934968172544?s=20

Elon's Tweet - https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/stocks/gamestop-stock-price-elon-musk-gamestonk-tweet-extends-trading-rally-2021-1-1030009065

Sea Shanty - https://twitter.com/wsbmod/status/1354192526593417225?s=09

Stonks Meme - https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/stonks

2020 is over and all our problems are solved! Right? Right!? The Lads talk about the year that has past and predictions for the year to come.

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Spreading Coronavirus: Crime? (LegalEagle’s Real Law Review)

https://youtu.be/0sSslPwV3Oc

How's 2021 going? We had a bunch of Trump led terrorists attack the Capitol and a bunch of people try to compare those terrorists BLM protestors. Let's talk about it, shall we?

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Interview with Capitol Officer

https://youtu.be/5sDtG-KbFHU

Mitt Romney yells at some Republicans

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/07/us/politics/capitol-lockdown.html

Police Violence against right wing and left wing protesters

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jan/13/us-police-use-of-force-protests-black-lives-matter-far-right

https://acleddata.com/special-projects/us-crisis-monitor/

Video of Officer Eugene Goodman

https://youtu.be/SP6T9kGtooM

There was a mistake at the factory and this episode is all happiness, all precious moments. Not an ounce of negativity the whole time.

It's the blast of positivity we all need right now... enjoy!

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The Real Heroes of the Pandemic… the Couch Potatoes

https://www.dw.com/en/germany-hails-couch-potatoes-as-heroes-of-coronavirus-pandemic/a-55604506

Pat picture: You can steal our sign but not our vote

https://imgur.com/RjHCU9i

Kris Kross - I missed the bus

https://youtu.be/_Tr8KRqyGJk

Stop throwing your kids over the fence please

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/lifestyle/french-school-asks-parents-to-stop-throwing-children-over-the-fence-when-theyre-late/X7TDOUVG65A3IQ3G3GMB75U7WI

Charmaine McGuffey, a lesbian who was allegedly fired because of her sexuality, has beaten her Republican rival to become the new sheriff of Hamilton County, Ohio.

https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/11/04/charmaine-mcguffey-elected-sheriff-hamilton-county-ohio-jim-neil-bruce-hoffbauer

Cosmic “Cold Spot”

https://physicsworld.com/a/competing-claims-over-cause-of-cosmic-cold-spot/

How can scientists tell the temperature of a distant planet?

https://sciencing.com/can-astronomers-tell-distant-objects-temperature-is-9560.html

Deer crashes through classroom window in Indiana…

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2020/11/12/deer-crashes-through-window-into-indiana-school-classroom/6274027002/

Lola Holmes still curling at 102…

https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/news/2020/11/102-year-old-canadian-becomes-the-world%E2%80%99s-oldest-curling-player-637634

Sea Turtles making a comeback during covid...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/apr/19/florida-leatherback-turtles-coronavirus-beaches

https://youtu.be/Ipf0fehg5os?t=45

Cosmos - the evolution of dogs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQHBmY6LbiA

Elephants get drunk…

https://www.livescience.com/drunk-elephants-china.html

Solar is now the cheapest electricity in history...

https://www.carbonbrief.org/solar-is-now-cheapest-electricity-in-history-confirms-iea

Turning Solar Energy into Liquid Fuel…

https://cleantechnica.com/2019/01/06/turning-solar-energy-into-liquid-fuel/

Botched Carving Restoration on Spanish Building…

https://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2020/11/11/Botched-carving-restoration-on-Spanish-building-ridiculed-online/9651605123777/?spt=su

How Monkey Christ brought new life to a quiet spanish town...

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/dec/28/how-monkey-christ-brought-new-life-to-a-quiet-spanish-town

Map of Marijuana Legalization by State…

https://disa.com/map-of-marijuana-legality-by-state

Turkmenistan leader reveals golden monument to favorite dog breed

https://youtu.be/gwq9p3R2TTA

WATER ON THE MOOOOOON…

https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-s-sofia-discovers-water-on-sunlit-surface-of-moon/

Dutch Whale Tail Sculpture Saves Train…

https://apnews.com/article/dutch-whale-tail-sculpture-catches-train-de0577175ba65260b4bd0923bf7b4a08

Japanese Robot Wolves to Scare off Bears…

https://youtu.be/t-eZ6eAi-zY

We all went plant based for a month to see how we felt... spoiler alert... pretty good. We talk to new friend of the pod and long time sister of Nathan Lexi who's been vegan for a quarter of a century (I just phrase it that way to make her feel old).

Join us won't you on an exciting adventure of having to read the ingredients of every damned thing you put in your mouth, fighting off rampant cravings, and learning how to make tofu?

And a huge thank you to everyone who sent in audio clips for this episode you are figuratively the wind beneath our wings.

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Diet for a New America by John Robbins - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/51315.Diet_for_a_New_America

Ezra Klein article on factory farming - https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2020/7/8/21311327/farmers-factory-farms-cafos-animal-rights-booker-warren-khanna

Tabitha Brown Vegan Recipes - https://www.youtube.com/user/Every1hasastory

https://vegancalculator.com/ - Go vegan for a month and see what your impact is! Or don’t, I’m not your mom.

Well pinch me because I must be dreaming. We had a chance to spend an incredible hour with the incredibly talented, incredibly kind, and incredibly thoughtful comedian Steve Hofstetter.

To paraphrase Ron Burgundy... he's kind of a big deal. We talk about creativity, paying it forward, dark comedy, Jerry Seinfeld, Jim Gaffigan, space, the pandemic, we go all over the place. It is an episode not to be missed with new friend of the pod... Steve Hofstetter!

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Steve’s Youtube Channel - https://www.youtube.com/user/thehofstetter

Eddie Ifft - https://youtu.be/gmkvECarTzI

Steve on Craig Ferguson - https://youtu.be/cZKdB3xDU9Q?t=1919

Tom Simmons - https://youtu.be/30bgr6lr46g

Matt Iseman - https://youtu.be/WC0elLjDwjQ

Jay Montepare Furniture - https://www.valmarcraftsman.com/

https://nowherecomedyclub.com/

In a slightly time travely episode the Bads Lads talk about everything from Space, to Vidya Games, to everyone's favorite spy... Jimmy B. Enjoy yourselves!

Chicken Tonight commercial

https://youtu.be/xnjcVvO40bg

Jeff Bezos is now worth more than 200 Billion

https://www.businessinsider.com/jeff-bezos-net-worth-life-spending-2018-8

Beat Box Intruder

https://youtu.be/AJ-IvYr2ShU

Shoot Em Up Trailer

https://youtu.be/BCzJGsTXmmM

Gilbert Gottfried

WAP - https://youtu.be/QaF6NfyVqqs

50 Shades of Grey - https://youtu.be/XkLqAlIETkA

Andy created, produced, and edited this episode all on his own and boy shucks are we ever proud of him. It's a different style of episode than normal but it's fantastic and should make for a great listen as you stand in those hours long lines at your polling locations trying to save our democracy.

Lots of different voices in this one with a lot of different hot takes.

Enjoy!

No more nibbling around the edges. Have you been told that you're overreacting when you complain about Trump?

Here's the official, organized, fully sourced Beat A Dead Source guide to why Donald Trump truly is an awful piece of sh*t.

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"We lived through 4 years, how much worse could 4 more years be?" - Pat

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Trump on QANON 

1- https://youtu.be/XWVNkHQtdbw

2- https://youtu.be/rjwWG6kJ6io?t=821

Trump to Bob Woodward on the Coronavirus

- https://youtu.be/HJkVOs0s3mw

Everything Trump says he knows more about than anybody

https://www.axios.com/everything-trump-says-he-knows-more-about-than-anybody-b278b592-cff0-47dc-a75f-5767f42bcf1e.html

Conspiracy theories Donald Trump has pushed

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_conspiracy_theories_promoted_by_Donald_Trump

Trump in Helsinki

https://youtu.be/9mB3lRNs82o

Trump and Kim Jong Un Fall in Love

https://youtu.be/we0awE-rnL4

Trump The Fake News is the Enemy of the People

https://youtu.be/0F_aXd5cwCw

Steve Bannon “Flood the zone with sh*t”

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2020/1/16/20991816/impeachment-trial-trump-bannon-misinformation

Pete Buttigieg Interview

https://youtu.be/sv-F05uN-zI

Proud Boys are a dangerous 'white supremacist' group say US agencies

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/oct/01/proud-boys-white-supremacist-group-law-enforcement-agencies

Spy vs Spy

https://youtu.be/1Nqyz0a6e7s

RNC SPEAKERS

https://www.montgomeryadvertiser.com/story/news/2020/09/04/rnc-2020-unprecedented-diversity-people-of-color-republican-props/3443834001/

Trump Central Park 5 Full page ad

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Central_Park_jogger_case#/media/File:Trump_Bring_Back_Death_Penalty_ad_1989.jpg

https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2019/06/06/trump-on-the-central-park-five-orig-js.cnn

Donald Trump is a Racist

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racial_views_of_Donald_Trump

Democratic Ad about Trump the Misogynist 

https://youtu.be/H6PPB9N8Ax8

False Allegations of Sexual Assault: An Analysis of Ten Years of Reported Cases

https://cdn.atixa.org/website-media/atixa.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/12193336/Lisak-False-Allegations-16-VAW-1318-2010.pdf

A SITTING PRESIDENT’S AMENABILITY TO INDICTMENT AND CRIMINAL PROSECUTION

https://www.justice.gov/sites/default/files/olc/opinions/2000/10/31/op-olc-v024-p0222_0.pdf

DONALD TRUMP ON DISLOYALTY - Charlie Rose 1992

https://charlierose.com/videos/14730

Trump Secretly Mocks His Christian Supporters

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2020/09/trump-secretly-mocks-his-christian-supporters/616522/

https://www.salon.com/2017/10/16/donald-trump-jokes-that-mike-pence-wants-to-hang-all-gay-people-laughing-yet/

Today the Lads are chatting up the parties that are swiped left on (Is that the bad one? I don't use the sex apps.). We're a two party system in search of a third. How did we get here? What do we want that third party to look like? How do we get there?

Anyway... vote for Biden.

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The Two Popes - Netflix Trailer

https://youtu.be/T5OhkFY1PQE

Seagull Screaming Meme

https://i.imgflip.com/26ha2i.jpg

Cornerstone Speech

https://www.battlefields.org/learn/primary-sources/cornerstone-speech

This 60-second animation shows how divided Congress has become over the last 60 years

https://youtu.be/tEczkhfLwqM

Nixon’s Southern Strategy - New York Times “It’s All In The Charts”

https://www.nytimes.com/packages/html/books/phillips-southern.pdf

Lee Drutman - Breaking the Two Party Doom Loop

https://youtu.be/koQD3q_dGLk

https://bookshop.org/books/breaking-the-two-party-doom-loop-the-case-for-multiparty-democracy-in-america/9780190913854

Birds Aren’t Real Campaign

https://youtu.be/zNtr0RahRqM

Handy graph that tracks US Military personnel as a percent of population by year.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f4/US_military_personnel_and_expenditures.png

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/military-personnel-relative-to-total-population

https://ourworldindata.org/military-spending

Election of 1800

https://www.270towin.com/1800_Election/

https://www.monticello.org/site/research-and-collections/election-1800

Biden V Clinton Health Plans

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2016/09/hillarycare-trumpcare-obamacare/501248/

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2019/07/20/743248732/radical-or-incremental-whats-really-in-joe-bidens-health-plan