What the bleep did you just bleeping say about me, you little content creator? I'll have you know I graduated top of my class in Adobe Premiere, and I've been involved in numerous secret clips on YouTube Rewind, and I have over 300 million views on my let's plays. I am trained in gorilla marketing and I'm the top YouTuber in the entire Gaming section. You are nothing to me but just another subscriber. I will wipe you the bleep out with response-videos the likes of which have never been seen before on this Earth, flag my bleeping words. You think you can get away with writing that comment to me over the Internet? Think again, streamer. As we speak I am contacting my secret network of patreons across the USA and your IP is being traced right now so you better prepare for a doxxing, maggot. The doxxing that wipes out the pathetic little thing you call your channel. You're bleeping copyright striked, kid. I can react anywhere, anytime, and I can take your channel down in over seven hundred ways, and that's just with the terms of service. Not only am I extensively trained in flagging content, but I have access to the entire arsenal of my mostly teenage discord server and I will use it to its full extent to wipe your miserable channel off the face of the continent, you little YouTuber. If only you could have known what unholy retribution your little "clever" comment was about to bring down upon you, maybe you would have held your bleeping tongue. But you couldn't, you didn't, and now you're paying the price, you goddamn idiot. I will bleep dislikes all over you and you will drown in it. You're bleeping demonetized, kiddo.

Actually making good on a promise from a previous episode, Austin and I chat about empire and its consequences. What does it mean when people say America's foreign policy has come home, and what does that have to do with Fight Club? Why are there so many connections between the movies In Bruges and The Prince of Egypt? Is it possible for Austin to do a good opener? 2/3 questions will be answered.

I also weirdly mess up Ralph Fiennes' and Marjorie Taylor Greene's names, but it's not like I'm going to fix that in editing.

Articles on bro culture and imperialism:

https://patrickwyman.substack.com/p/bro-culture-fitness-chivalry-and

https://inkstickmedia.com/the-liberal-internationalist-origins-of-right-wing-insurrection/

Stephen Wertheim's book "Tomorrow, The World"

https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674248663

The real coup was the friends we made along the way. Austin and I chatted a few days after the inauguration about the Capitol Hill riot on January 6th. As usual, the conversation gets into obscure Twitter disputes and Star Wars.

In this New Year's special of the J+A podcast, Jay is pretty drunk so this episode gets really loose really fast. We talk a lot about language, memes, himbos, Bill Maher, The Simpsons, talk shows, politics, the German title of the Disposessed, life abroad, having conversations, and plans for next year. Happy New Year and congrats on surviving 2020!

Austin and I talk about the conceptual struggle between positivist/rationalist and critical theories, bookended by references to the webcomic Sweet Bro and Hella Jeff.

Sweet Bro and Hella Jeff: https://mspaintadventures.fandom.com/wiki/Sweet_Bro_and_Hella_Jeff

The specific comic Austin talks about: http://www.mspaintadventures.com/sweetbroandhellajeff/?cid=001.jpg

Our awesome theme music: https://purplefunkmetropolis.bandcamp.com/track/astro-turf

In this episode, we talk about King Gord(us), the famed inventor of the Gordian Knot and how sweet a gig he had until Alexander came and mucked it all up. Actually, we talk about Twitter, Keynesian economics, the limits of individual action/choice, liberals who spend more time punching left than right, and how adaptations of old sci-fi works deal with problematic pieces of lore.

Show notes:

Our awesome theme music: https://purplefunkmetropolis.bandcamp.com/track/astro-turf

Jay's "schemes upon schemes" tweet:

https://twitter.com/jeighmorg/status/1322572695486242817

Austin moved to a dog-free but somehow still loud apartment. I try to take the air out of the overinflated image of Germany's COVID response. Austin shares his experience voting in person and we both complain about the GOP and the Electoral College. We end by talking about civility and promising to have this same conversation again. Maybe next time we'll actually do the YouTube episode? Spooooooky topics for our Halloween special.

Jay and I sat down today and reckoned with the serious fact that even in a utopia, you probably get mad sometimes and take it out on the dog in a way that's not fair to the dog or to you. We also talk about Joe Biden's dog, anarchist apartment buildings, police raids, train sabotage, German politics and draw comparisons to the US, especially in form of historical literacy, policing and COVID. I promise it's not near as heavy (or as exciting) as it sounds.

There are no intro audio clips this time. If you don't want to listen to the theme music, shame on you (but you can jump to 2:50). Our guest this time is David Adrian. David continues our series of guests more qualified than we are. We had a great conversation about differences across academic disciplines, the tech world, applying strategy, and whether or not the Last Jedi was actually that bad.

Tristan Weber joins as our first guest. We talk space, PhDs, and dealing with pressure while abroad.