Dystopia Now

Todd and Kerouac are back to discuss the retirement of Stephen Breyer and what the job of finding a replacement might look like. But enough about that ... we got our first ever music track submitted from a listener. Check out "Living in Hell-Vetica," a song from Conversations with a Willow Tree by Time, a Denver-based rapper, at the end of the episode. 

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Martin Luther King Jr. Day just wouldn't be the same without politicians and corporations singing the praises of a civil rights icon they absolutely would have loathed if he were around today.   

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Music: God is Gay/Poisson

Whether it's Novak Djokovic in Australia or Aaron Rodgers in Green Bay, it stinks to see superstar athletes try to get away with not playing by the rules when it comes to Covid. It's even worse when you consider how many fans might follow their lead. 

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Music: God is Gay/Poisson

Dr. Fauci got fired up at Tuesday's hearing, while some other people got worked up over a badly edited clip that was shared widely online. There's an agenda behind both of those incidents and we think it's pretty easy to figure out ... if you actually want to.

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Music: God is Gay/Poisson

Lindsey Graham had some harsh words the day after the insurrection last year. Fast forward to the anniversary and he seems to think it was no big deal. Plus, Ted Cruz flip-flopped in just one day and still got dressed down by Tucker Carlson. 

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Music: God is Gay/Poisson

Marjorie Taylor Greene -- possibly the most useless US representative -- was kicked off Twitter this week. Naturally, she's milking it for all it's worth by playing the latest made-up victim of cancel culture.  

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Music: God is Gay/Poisson

It's a climate disaster movie disguised as a dark comedy about a deadly comet, so why did so many people dislike Netflix's "Don't Look Up" so much? We've got some ideas. 

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Music: God is Gay/Poisson

West Virginia senator Joe Manchin waited until just days before Christmas to pull the rug out from under Joe Biden on the Build Back Better bill. So we decided to dedicate our Christmas episode to figuring out which Christmas villain he resembles the most.

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Music: God is Gay/Poisson

You guys, it's been a crazy week in Dystopia. We finally got some movement from the folks investigating the insurrection, the new COVID variant picked up steam and the biggest movie of the year arrived in theaters. 

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Music: God is Gay/Poisson

On Saturday, another batch of rich people went up in Jeff Bezos' stupid rocket for a 10-minute joyride. What's the fascination with getting off this planet for rich people? Oh right, they are also the ones killing it.

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Music: God is Gay/Poisson