Heat Death of the Universe

Another autopsy on/vivisection of the poisoned, confused, bloated, murderous and twitching corpse of the Greatest Democracy in the Universe For All Time in Perpetuity, No Take-Backsies.

Commiserate on Discord: discord.gg/aDf4Yv9PrY
Support: patreon / buzzsprout
Never Forget: standwithdanielhale.org

Genral Recommendations

• Josh's Recommendations: 1) Electronic Intifada 2) Monodweiss 3) Geopolitical Economy Report 4) The Grayzone 5) Useful Idiots 6) Middle East Eye 7) The Cradle 8) Two upcoming movies that look interesting: My Old Ass and The Different Man
• Tim's Recommendations: 1) The Daytrippers 2) Help Bailey Beat Cancer: Surgery Needed

More From Joshua Nomen-Mutatio

• Some Fiction Writing
  • An ongoing novel: The Feeding Stage
  • A short story: Lydia's Drive
  • A short story: The Form Awards

More From Timothy Robert Buechner

• Podcast: Q&T ARE / violentpeople.co 
• Tweets: @ROHDUTCH

Locationless Locations

• heatdeathpod.com
• Every show-related link is corralled and available here.
• Twitter: @heatdeathpod
• Please send all Letters of Derision, Indifference, Inquiry, Mild Elation, et cetera to: [email protected]

Send us a text

Support the show

We review Francis Ford Coppola's polarizing, self-funded, $120 million dollar, sci-fi epic, Megalopolis. A film forty plus years in the making, which possibily predicted 9/11, is jammed full of oft-disjointed dialogue, Shakespearean theatrics, experimental cinematography and effects, allegedly THC-fueled throughout, undergirded by undergraduate philosophical fixations, bepopulate with very talented performers, and despite most people's reactions, positive or less than, there seems to be a large consensus that it's at the very least, interesting. Is it the (intentionally) funniest movie possibly of all time? Or does it lean more toward being a $120 million dollar Neal Breen vanity project? Will this cinematic-celluloidal instantiation be the catalyst the world needs to begin asking the questions that lead to the dialogue to the conversation that is our very utopia? We sort through some "time, consciousness, and courage", i.e. thoughts and theories, to try to get to the bottom of it all.

Commiserate on Discord: discord.gg/aDf4Yv9PrY
Support: patreon / buzzsprout
Never Forget: standwithdanielhale.org

Genral Recommendations

• Josh's Recommendations: Aubrey Plaza Double Feature: 1) Ingrid Goes West 2) Emily the Criminal
• Tim's Recommendations: 1) The Penguin 2) Help Bailey Beat Cancer: Surgery Needed

Further Reading, Viewing, Listening

• Show notes + Full list of links, sources, etc

More From Joshua Nomen-Mutatio

• Some Fiction Writing
  • An ongoing novel: The Feeding Stage
  • A short story: Lydia's Drive
  • A short story: The Form Awards

More From Timothy Robert Buechner

• Podcast: Q&T ARE / violentpeople.co 
• Tweets: @ROHDUTCH

Locationless Locations

• heatdeathpod.com
• Every show-related link is corralled and available here.
• Twitter: @heatdeathpod
• Please send all Letters of Derision, Indifference, Inquiry, Mild Elation, et cetera to: [email protected]

Send us a text

Support the show

We talk about the state of Horse Race 2024, and each camp's various attempts at outreach and appearing human-esque. Tony Hinchcliff more like "Tony Should Jump Off a Cliff," amirite, folks?? Then Tim reports from the field about Ana Kasparian's supposed mental breakdown and we get into the whole wide world of youtube leftist gossip shows (just one, really). We both hype up Megalopolis and tease the possibility of covering it on the show.

Commiserate on Discord: discord.gg/aDf4Yv9PrY
Support: patreon / buzzsprout
Never Forget: standwithdanielhale.org

Genral Recommendations

• Josh's Recommendations: 1) Going outdoors 2) Megalopolis
• Tim's Recommendations: 1) Say Ocean 2) T-Shirts with books on them

Further Reading, Viewing, Listening

• Show notes + Full list of links, sources, etc

More From Joshua Nomen-Mutatio

• Some Fiction Writing
  • An ongoing novel: The Feeding Stage
  • A short story: Lydia's Drive
  • A short story: The Form Awards

More From Timothy Robert Buechner

• Podcast: Q&T ARE / violentpeople.co 
• Tweets: @ROHDUTCH

Locationless Locations

• heatdeathpod.com
• Every show-related link is corralled and available here.
• Twitter: @heatdeathpod
• Please send all Letters of Derision, Indifference, Inquiry, Mild Elation, et cetera to: [email protected]

Send us a text

Support the show

Enter the Extremely Above Ground Bunker of the mind, gather 'round the hearth, warm your hands by its digitized fireplace, and settle in for:

• Journalist Jeremy Loffredo being freed from the tyrannical grip of the Most Moral Police State in the World.
• An in-depth examination of one of the most mindboggling interviews in recent memory, with some Great Male Narcissist novelist.
• Israeli "Settlers" line up at the Gazan border for a celebratory summit, all eagerly awaiting their chance to colonize the land and cleanse it of the "infection" of Palestinians.
• Netanyahu's stolen/"settled" vacation home nearly takes a direct hit from a Hezbollah drone.
• I go through a few of the virtually endless instances in both Palestine and Lebanon that make up this week's portion of what I'm now calling "The Atrocity Loop."
• The IDF doing wild antisemitic tropes on themselves involving the wanton destruction (or not) of Lebanese financial institutions.
• Crying While Shooting is no longer merely a masturbation style: The IDF keeps innovating in the realm of self-pitying sef-obsession.
• The vultures are swooping into Gaza to create "Uber for Concentration Camps."
• Assange speaks for the first time in too long.
• Yo, AIPAC, don't worry, Kamala's still gotchyer back.
• Israel cements its status as Veruca Salt, stamping its feet and demanding the universe on a silver platter with a silver spoon jammed down its spoiled brat throat.
• Matthew "In the Mouth of Madness" Miller declares boldly and unequivocally that, "Israel has a right to try and target civilians."
• Cuba's been without electricity for going on or now exceeding five days. Why?
• 88% of South Koreans think their society isn’t fit for raising children.
• China may have accessed US wire taps on US citizens. BUT AT WHAT COST?!

Special thanks to KNOWER for the vocal sample in the intro music.

Commiserate on Discord: discord.gg/aDf4Yv9PrY
Support: patreon / buzzsprout
Never Forget: standwithdanielhale.org

Further Reading, Viewing, Listening

• Show notes + Full list of links, sources, etc

Locationless Locations

• heatdeathpod.com
• Every show-related link is corralled and available here.
• Twitter: @heatdeathpod
• Please send all Letters of Derision, Indifference, Inquiry, Mild Elation, et cetera to: [email protected]

Send us a text

Support the show

• Facial recognition's in the supermarket aisle: up to no good or good no to up?
• Just how happy were migrant laborers to be working through the floods and the record shattering hurricanes?
• These QR codes are out of fucking control.
• John Mulaney takes the AI industry's money and mocks them mercilessly for it.
• What's it like to attend Jordan Peterson's online uNiVeRsiTy?

Commiserate on Discord: discord.gg/aDf4Yv9PrY
Support: patreon / buzzsprout
Never Forget: standwithdanielhale.org

Genral Recommendations

• Josh's Recommendations: 1) Air Frying 2) The Penguin 3) Harassing John Fetterman
• Tim's Recommendation: Baby Reindeer

Further Reading, Viewing, Listening

• Show notes + Full list of links, sources, etc

More From Joshua Nomen-Mutatio

• Some Fiction Writing
  • An ongoing novel: The Feeding Stage
  • A short story: Lydia's Drive
  • A short story: The Form Awards

More From Timothy Robert Buechner

• Podcast: Q&T ARE / violentpeople.co 
• Tweets: @ROHDUTCH

Locationless Locations

• heatdeathpod.com
• Every show-related link is corralled and available here.
• Twitter: @heatdeathpod
• Please send all Letters of Derision, Indifference, Inquiry, Mild Elation, et cetera to: [email protected]

Send us a text

Support the show

The sadly beautiful and beautifully sad Human Experiment™ as seen at 17,000 miles per hour. Continued. Transmitted from the Extremely Above Ground Bunker once again.

• Some lurking into the strange world of GㅇㅇGㄴㅌMaps as it relates to bizarre, yet officially reviewed places within the walls of the White House. 
• Some off the cuff remarks about USA domestic political twaddle. 
• The US accelerates toward war with Iran.
• The Biden admin will not stop fucking around with pretending to be peeved at Israel while wholeheartedly being the Prime Mover behind its unhinged genocidal mania.
• In the Mouth of Madness: The Matt Miller Saga Continues
• Much like the US, Germany plays absurd games with pretending to condition its support for the Zionist Entity (although they do want a pinky swear promise in writing).
• Germans get sickened by their own theatrical perversions.
• Jeremy Loffredo is still trapped in Israel for doing real journalism.
• Northern Gaza is a nightmare beyond the strained reaches of language.
• The IDF knows no depths to its depravity and has the custom made t-shirts to prove it (along with all the video evidence).
• Some repugnantly joyous Zionists celebrate the worst crimes and expect to be given a prize for doing so.
• Dr. Tanya Haj-Hassan is a rare and wonderful bright spot in the black as pitch wilderness of the bloodletting and mass murder campaign in Palestine.
• The US pretends some more to give a shit about Israel doing Gaza 2.0 in Lebanon and the nauseating charade is gossamer thin.

Special thanks to KNOWER for the vocal sample in the intro music.

Commiserate on Discord: discord.gg/aDf4Yv9PrY
Support: patreon / buzzsprout
Never Forget: standwithdanielhale.org

Further Reading, Viewing, Listening

• Show notes + Full list of links, sources, etc

Locationless Locations

• heatdeathpod.com
• Every show-related link is corralled and available here.
• Twitter: @heatdeathpod
• Please send all Letters of Derision, Indifference, Inquiry, Mild Elation, et cetera to: [email protected]

Send us a text

Support the show

We convene, mashing our zany and/or very hungover energies together, to discuss various bribery schemes to make people profess certain political ideologies or vote in certain directions, as well as contests to go "hawking" with RFK or whale watching with him and his wife. Kamala's having trouble using words. Obama's letting his subtlety game slip a bit while lecturing Black dudes about how they need to VOTE the right way. Nazis invade St. Louis. A German Nazi dies while trying to hike Hitler's favorite mountain. Mike Pillow swears he didn't price his pillow at $14.88 for white supremecy reasons, it's just a numbers-based sales tactic.

Commiserate on Discord: discord.gg/aDf4Yv9PrY
Support: patreon / buzzsprout
Never Forget: standwithdanielhale.org

Genral Recommendations

• Josh's Recommendations: 1) Twisted Metal 2) Elliott Smith
• Tim's Recommendation: SKIPPY® P.B. Bites

Further Reading, Viewing, Listening

• Show notes + Full list of links, sources, etc

More From Joshua Nomen-Mutatio

• Some Fiction Writing
  • An ongoing novel: The Feeding Stage
  • A short story: Lydia's Drive
  • A short story: The Form Awards

More From Timothy Robert Buechner

• Podcast: Q&T ARE / violentpeople.co 
• Tweets: @ROHDUTCH

Locationless Locations

• heatdeathpod.com
• Every show-related link is corralled and available here.
• Twitter: @heatdeathpod
• Please send all Letters of Derision, Indifference, Inquiry, Mild Elation, et cetera to: [email protected]

Send us a text

Support the show

Another spate of global happenings as seen/transmitted from the Extremely Above Ground Bunker by Heat Death of the Universe's cosmonautical microphonist, Joshua Nomen-Mutatio.

• The Memorial to the Victims of Communism in Ottawa has run into a little Third Reich-ish type snag recently.
• The slowmotion sea change on Ukraine continues as more and more high ranking officials seem ready to give up what was always an unwinnable war with Russia.
• US helps keep Ukrainian soldiers from fleeing the battlefield, lock them up for nine years and take their money, all for the good of "Slava Ukraini" to be sure.
• Kamala Harris continues to not know a lot of things and increases her power to issue more sounds from her mouth that amount to little if nothing at all.
• A Ukrainian grandma gets five years in prison for clicking 'like' on forbidden Russo-posts.
• A Palestinian-Israeli school teacher gets god knows what horrendous punishment from the Israeli regime for sharing an online "memory".
• Matt Miller (i.e. Count Smirkula, i.e. Cunt Chocula) is getting the metaphorical shit kicked out of him lately and, goddamn, are so many of us just sat down and ready for it.
• During his first ever White House Press briefing, Joe Biden makes it abundently clear he doesn't give a fuck about much of anything anymore.
• Receipts proving Anthony Blinken is a murderous pig continue to pile up and no one really cares.
• Ralph Nader tweets hard as fuck, drawing attention to an open letter from healthcare workers who've seen unimaginable hell in Gaza addressed to Biden/Harris and ignored by the press, naturally.
• Another self-immolation in the world's healthiest society.
• IDF uses Irish troops as human shields.
• A few thoughts on the year since October 7th, 2023.
• Thomas "Suck. On. This." Friedman writes the dumbest shit to ever grace the planet Earth about how the "conflict" in Israel-Palestine-Lebanon-etc is really all about competing stories and who has the "cleanest story." Genocide laundering pablum that should get a person thrown into some kind of jail for pseudointellectual hacks.
• Lindsay Graham is physiologically, psychologically and spiritually incapable of talking about anything for more than 4.27 seconds before morphing into a bloodthirsty, vaguely humanoid-shaped wardrum, banging on about Israel, Iran, Ukraine, Russian, and/or China.

Special thanks to KNOWER for the vocal sample in the intro music.

Commiserate on Discord: discord.gg/aDf4Yv9PrY
Support: patreon / buzzsprout
Never Forget: standwithdanielhale.org

Further Reading, Viewing, Listening

• Show notes + Full list of links, sources, etc

Locationless Locations

• heatdeathpod.com
• Every show-related link is corralled and available here.
• Twitter: @heatdeathpod
• Please send all Letters of Derision, Indifference, Inquiry, Mild Elation, et cetera to: [email protected]

Send us a text

Support the show

We discuss the subjective documentary Room 237 in which a handful of obsessive armchair theorists share their various interpretations of Stanley Kubrick's masterclass in splicing arthouse ambiguity with genre trope driven narrative, The Shining. What's in between each frame in these frame-by-frame analyses? North American genocide? Freudian treatise? A false moon landing confessional? Subliminal advertising techniques on display and under scrutiny? The historic ripples and echoes of the Third Reich? Or is it, as Kubrick himself said, simply about "a man who tries to kill his family"?

Commiserate on Discord: discord.gg/aDf4Yv9PrY
Support: patreon / buzzsprout
Never Forget: standwithdanielhale.org

Genral Recommendations

• Josh's Recommendation: Room 237
• Tim's Recommendation: Industry (the recommendation that's always been here)

Further Reading, Viewing, Listening

• VIEW: Room 237 (here or here)
• LISTEN: The Makers of THE SHINING documentary 'Room 237'
• READ: KUBRICK'S SHINING' SECRET by Bill Blakemore (July 12, 1987)
• READ: The Wolf at the Door: Stanley Kubrick, History, and the Holocaust

More From Joshua Nomen-Mutatio

• Some Fiction Writing
  • An ongoing novel: The Feeding Stage
  • A short story: Lydia's Drive
  • A short story: The Form Awards

More From Timothy Robert Buechner

• Podcast: Q&T ARE / violentpeople.co 
• Tweets: @ROHDUTCH

Locationless Locations

• heatdeathpod.com
• Every show-related link is corralled and available here.
• Twitter: @heatdeathpod
• Please send all Letters of Derision, Indifference, Inquiry, Mild Elation, et cetera to: [email protected]

Send us a text

Support the show

Curl up with a good doom scrolling device and get real cozy in the Extremely Above Ground Bunker and step into the spotlit amphitheater of the mind as Josh sifts through piles of current geopolitical events including but not limited to: 

• More vile threats/"jokes" about beepers coming from elected officials.
• US Department of War spokespeople being heinous as usual.
• The stupid fucking Blue vs Red horserace drags on and Dems keep crowing about how great their bipartisan immigration bill is despite it being a piece of pure neocon wishlist arcanum, or what Amnesty International called "the most extreme anti-immigrant proposals this country has seen in 100 years [which will] only lead to more suffering, more cruelty, and more death."
• The Biden Admin was totally BLINDSIDED by what its client state, colonial outpost, genocide-for-hire eternal pal Israel did to Lebanon.
• The Eternal Recurrence vibes strike hard w/r/t Israel-Palestine-Lebanon.
• At the UN General Assembly, Netanhayu gives a raving lunatic speech as per usual + Biden follows suit but does so in a more socially acceptable way because people feel sorry for him and can see his disgusting soul leaking out of his slackened anus.
• Nationwide general strike in Spain in solidarity with Palestine.
• Germany's vibrant new Ministry of Truth arrests people for watching RT.
• Dahiya doctrine: cruel irony or cruelest irony?
• Ukrainian soldiers going AWOL in record numbers, grim realities closing in.
• Trump meets Zelenskyy and it's a titch awkward.

Special thanks to KNOWER for the vocal sample in the intro music.

Commiserate on Discord: discord.gg/aDf4Yv9PrY
Support: patreon / buzzsprout
Never Forget: standwithdanielhale.org
Further Reading, Viewing, Listening:
Episode Notes, Sources, Et cetera

More From Joshua Nomen-Mutatio

• Some Fiction Writing
  • An ongoing novel: The Feeding Stage
  • A short story: Lydia's Drive
  • A short story: The Form Awards

More From Timothy Robert Buechner

• Podcast: Q&T ARE / violentpeople.co 
• Tweets: @ROHDUTCH

Locationless Locations

• heatdeathpod.com
• Every show-related link is corralled and available here.
• Twitter: @heatdeathpod
• Please send all Letters of Derision, Indifference, Inquiry, Mild Elation, et cetera to:

Send us a text

Support the show