Matt, Josh, Andy and Ian gather round and gawk at Elon Musk’s latest incredible foray into science-fact with Neuralink. Before that, Transhumanism and the singularity.

On today’s episode Ian and Matt talk about Friday night’s conclusion to convention season, featuring speeches by Ivanka and Donald Trump. Like everything else in history, first came the tragedy, then came the farce. We also take a brief look into what led Kyle Rittenhouse to commit his double homicide in Kenosha last week.

It’s the return of the Casey Jones’ Book Club, this time we’re going to talk about Vance Packard’s 1960 missive against consumerism, The Waste Makers. Similar to Rabelais’ and His World, is another mid-20th century (semi-)philosophical text meant to underline what the author perceived as a structural failing of society. Girdle your liberty tree andContinue reading "Episode 21 – Igor and The Waste Makers"

On today’s show we’re going to be talking about the 1988 Presidential election between then Vice President George Bush, and Massachusetts governor Michael Dukakis. Besides the obvious parallels between then and now. We’ll also find that the 1988 election was the first “modern” presidential campaign in a few ways, for either side of the aisle.

Barron Trump’s hydraulic imperium shall one day rule man like the velvet fist of a golden God. For the conclusion of today’s episode, please take the Kanye Hymnal from the pew in front of you, and open your  books to page 1, under the Chapter Titled “Kanye Forsook His Medication”.

Matt and Ian get together to watch a forgotten classic, 1975’s Rollerball starring James Caan. Set in a near-future dystopia run by brutal megacorporations, Jonathan E. fights the powers that be, and wins. This movie is so, so good. Please watch it.

Matt is joined by Ian, Dave, AND Josh for what can only be described as a nauseating exploration of why Ohio sucks so bad. Featuring at least 10 mispronunciations of Antone Melton-Meux’s last name. Suck it, Chuck!

A time of fat paychecks, easy raises, and an overwhelming sense that things were generally going to be “okay”; the late 90s featured a preposterous amount of money being thrown at stuff that absolutely should not – and could not  – have existed in any meaningful fashion before or since. Along with Freakazoid, we’ll lookContinue reading "Episode 16 – The Late 90s and the Dot-Com Boom feat. Freakazoid"

I’m currently in a twitter feud with with Aubrey Huff AND David Cross on the timeline and i’m trying my hardest to get blocked. You suck, Aubrey, and the Yankees always owned your ass. As for David… looks like you really “blue” this one, bud. Block me now or I will only grow stronger. AlsoContinue reading "Episode 15 – Brace for Zoomer Revolt, and Other Pedophile Stories"

Our longest episode yet! Walter, Ian and Matt acknowledge that Mars will always be Filipino, and then we test our patience (but not COVID) with Jared Kushner. Closing out the episode we examine Umberto Eco’s seminal essay, Ur-Fascism