Mechanical Freak

It’s that time of year again! Time to sit down at the table with family and friends, dig into your potatoes, and blast the Mechanical Freak Thanksgiving Pageant Spectacular at max volume through your beats headphones to drown out your family. This year, we are joined again by the Gates Foundation to learn about their exciting work in Africa! Justin Roll joins us to let us know about the latest news from Hollywood! Greg shares his theories about a fantasy series that people stopped caring about five years ago! And we learn about one of the great fail-sons of history! All this and much more!

For more on the great work going on at The Gates Foundation, check out our 7-part series, A Song of Philanthropy & Pedophilia: Part 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7

Catch up on Ending the Myth mechanicalfreak.website/ending-the-myth

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The boys discuss the new wave of tech layoffs and what that means for the Fed’s efforts to get this recession going before asking how a polycule in the Bahamas could have led us all astray.

The gang takes a victory lap over Elon’s efforts to squeeze money out of the stone that is Twitter before discussing the Democrats’ pre-made excuses for getting walloped in the midterms.

Listen to our original discussion of Elon’s twitter-saga on EP 128 - Swag Equity, pt 1

This week behind the paywall: They did the shock! It was a Volker Shock! We bring you part 2 of our two part series on the Federal Reserve, inflation, and neoliberalism. This episode has been pried out from behind the Patreon wall for you to enjoy as a treat this Halloween week. Subscribe for access to all our premium episodes. https://www.patreon.com/seattlesucks

If you haven’t already listened to part 1, what are you doing? Go listen to it!

The original post for Ep 135 - History’s Greatest Monster can be found here

This week behind the paywall: After Fed Chair Jerome Powell brought you a trick on Wednesday by hinting that the Fed might stop jacking up interest rates, just to come back an hour later and say, “Psych! We’re inducing a recession, baby!” We have decided to bring you a treat. We dug deep in the Freak vaults to bring you a two-part episode that we did back in June on inflation, the Federal Reserve, and neoliberalism. It’s all the same, only the dates have changed, so lean in to the end! Subscribe for access to all our premium episodes. https://www.patreon.com/seattlesucks

The original post for Ep 134 - Foam Party can be found here

This week behind the paywall: a special Halloween episode, Brian – dressed as Jonathan Frakes – tells Greg three spooky stories about aliens, the Cold War, and the horrors of space. Do you think that you have what it takes to tell which stories are fact and which are fiction when they are truly beyond belief? Subscribe for access to all our premium episodes. https://www.patreon.com/seattlesucks

If you want to hear Brian tell more stories about aliens, check out his interview with Jason Rigden on The Podcast of Mystery!

I’ve got election fever and the only prescription is bullying the nerds! While Brian is away, Munya, Greg, and dear friend of the show Justin Roll (@dntStartTheFire) take the opportunity to open a ballot for the ASMR value, and little else.

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Munya and Brian are back to bring you three tales of woe. First, they delve into the “mysterious” disappearance of one billion snow crabs. Then, they discuss why NFL owners are mad at Dan Snyder – hint: it’s not the sex trafficking. Finally, Brian gives us an update on the town of Uvalde and how the first month back to school is going. Brace yourself.

PEER’s statement on NOAA’s complicity in overfishing

ESPN’s full report on Dan Snyder and the NFL

The Texas Legislature’s report on the Uvalde shooting

Here is an easier to digest video discussing some of the finding of Leg report

Here is the San Antonio Express News’ reporting on Uvalde in the aftermath of the shooting

Mechanical Freak’s original episode covering the Uvalde shooting in its immediate aftermath