Remember UFTP? We're back, in pod form.

Plan a road trip for this one, UFTP has brought the best and brightest minds from the exclusive IngSoc Social Club for a 2-hr deep dive into all the news that's not worth talking about anymore.

That's right, we're closing the book on all the stuff that's getting recycled in the news - are Nazis bad? Are Republicans in the Found Out stage of FAFO? Are taxes good? Well, we're here to tell you of course Nazis are bad, silly. And even if Republicans are finding out, they should still be able to afford insulin. We're undecided on taxes, though. We report, we decide!

Topics and time-stamps:

Nazis - 17:21

The Democratic Party is a Farce - 22:05

Two-Party System - 25:49

Russia is the Bad Guy - 34:25

Media Blackout - 37:15

Electric Vehicles (not Tesla) - 43:44

Detaining Immigrant Families - 53:23

FAFO - 1:01:07

Trump is Dumb - 1:22:00

Taxes - 1:26:50

There is no "Gotcha" - 1:34:12

Climate is Still a Huge F-ing Problem - 1:35:41

Re-negotiating the Social Contract - 1:49:09

Mississippi has been withholding federal funds to repair its capital city's water problems. Majority black Jackson, Mississippi, has been at the mercy of the majority white state legislature for decades, which acts as overseer of the city's finances.

Climate change has brought severe weather to the state - flood conditions and freezing weather overwhelms Jackson's ancient infrastructure and causes burst pipes, broken pumps, endless leaks, and contaminated drinking water.

The impact on Jackson's 150,000 residents has been devastating - city-wide water boil notices, complete lack of service, and elevated blood-lead levels in children. And it's happening right now.

If you were to ask Mississippi's legislators what caused these problems, they would tell you it was the people of Jackson who brought it upon themselves. After all, Jackson didn't have a water problem until they elected their first black mayor - their words, not mine.

If you asked the legislators how the people of Jackson could fix their own water crisis, they'd tell you they'd be willing to help if Jackson made some sort of effort to fix it first. Though, spending hundreds of millions of dollars on infrastructure repairs since the mid-1990s apparently doesn't count.

Maybe if Jackson sold its airport to the state, Governor Tate Reeves would be more willing to help. Oh, yeah, there's a whole thing about the airport.

For this episode, author, professor, and host of HBO+'s Hungry For Answers Caroline Randall Williams joins me to discuss the intersection of race and infrastructure - and we determine once and for all whether you can be racist towards a whole-ass place (spoiler: yes, you can).

Kenny returns! In this multi-part unscripted episode, Kenny and I butcher some of our favorite conspiracy theories: the ones we love, the ones we loathe, the ones we secretly want to be true, and the ones we believe. Don your tinfoil hats, power up the Google, and prepare to yell at your listening devices as we dive into the world of government lies, government truths, and the Pyramids!

Kenny returns! In this multi-part unscripted episode, Kenny and I butcher some of our favorite conspiracy theories: the ones we love, the ones we loathe, the ones we secretly want to be true, and the ones we believe. Don your tinfoil hats, power up the Google, and prepare to yell at your listening devices as we dive into the world of government lies, government truths, and the Pyramids!

Who's ready to get weird? Like...uncomfortably weird. In the final episode of The Apostate Peter Ruckman we get into the pettiness of bible believers and the biblical evidence of aliens, UFOs, alien-government conspiracies, lizard people, and how Ruckmanism is but one example of religious fascism that has crept upon us for over half a century. Super fun stuff.

Wouldn't it be neat if you could justify all your prejudices by interpreting the Bible however you wanted and then saying that it's the inerrant word of God? If you're Dr. Peter S. Ruckman, that Bible is the King James Version, aka A.V. 1611, and your interpretation will come to be known as Ruckmanism. The souls you save, should they cling to your teachings, will become Ruckmanites. As far as cults go, Ruckmanism is as close as you can get to a cult without renouncing your worldly possessions and turning over your bank information.

Though Ruckman died in 2016, the teachings of Ruckmanism remain relevant to certain Bible-believing Christians who adhere to King James Onlyism. Dr. Ruckman was a viciously smart preacher who could read upwards of 700 words a minute and re-read the bible dozens of times a year. One of the core tenets of Ruckmanism is that the original King James Bible was divinely inspired to the point that it is more accurate than the Greek texts from which it was translated, which is a bridge too far even for many Christian literalists.

Dr. Ruckman was also a vicious drunk, womanizer, domestic abuser, and racist. Through Ruckman's interpretation of the Bible, Black Americans were meant to be subservient, the Jews were meant to serve as a sacrifice for the second coming of Jesus, and Catholicism was a satanic cult.

Wouldn't it be neat if you could justify all your prejudices by interpreting the Bible however you wanted and then saying that it's the inerrant word of God? If you're Dr. Peter S. Ruckman, that Bible is the King James Version, aka A.V. 1611, and your interpretation will come to be known as Ruckmanism. The souls you save, should they cling to your teachings, will become Ruckmanites. As far as cults go, Ruckmanism is as close as you can get to a cult without renouncing your worldly possessions and turning over your bank information.

Though Ruckman died in 2016, the teachings of Ruckmanism remain relevant to certain Bible-believing Christians who adhere to King James Onlyism. Dr. Ruckman was a viciously smart preacher who could read upwards of 700 words a minute and re-read the bible dozens of times a year. One of the core tenets of Ruckmanism is that the original King James Bible was divinely inspired to the point that it is more accurate than the Greek texts from which it was translated, which is a bridge too far even for many Christian literalists.

Dr. Ruckman was also a vicious drunk, womanizer, domestic abuser, and racist. Through Ruckman's interpretation of the Bible, Black Americans were meant to be subservient, the Jews were meant to serve as a sacrifice for the second coming of Jesus, and Catholicism was a satanic cult.

In Part 3, we explore the foundations of Ruckmanism, Ruckman's biblical crusade against integration, and Ruckman's totally-not-obsessed obsession with Nazism.

Wouldn't it be neat if you could justify all your prejudices by interpreting the Bible however you wanted and then saying that it's the inerrant word of God? If you're Dr. Peter S. Ruckman, that Bible is the King James Version, aka A.V. 1611, and your interpretation will come to be known as Ruckmanism. The souls you save, should they cling to your teachings, will become Ruckmanites. As far as cults go, Ruckmanism is as close as you can get to a cult without renouncing your worldly possessions and turning over your bank information.

Though Ruckman died in 2016, the teachings of Ruckmanism remain relevant to certain Bible-believing Christians who adhere to King James Onlyism. Dr. Ruckman was a viciously smart preacher who could read upwards of 700 words a minute and re-read the bible dozens of times a year. One of the core tenets of Ruckmanism is that the original King James Bible was divinely inspired to the point that it is more accurate than the Greek texts from which it was translated, which is a bridge too far even for many Christian literalists.

Dr. Ruckman was also a vicious drunk, womanizer, domestic abuser, and racist. Through Ruckman's interpretation of the Bible, Black Americans were meant to be subservient, the Jews were meant to serve as a sacrifice for the second coming of Jesus, and Catholicism was a satanic cult.

In Part 2, we look at the failure of Ruckman's first marriage to wife Janie May and how Ruckman battled God and demons to attain salvation. There's also those several times he assaulted a priest, hit his wife, and began hearing voices just like his brother Johnny.

Wouldn't it be neat if you could justify all your prejudices by interpreting the Bible however you wanted and then saying that it's the inerrant word of God? If you're Dr. Peter S. Ruckman, that Bible is the King James Version, aka A.V. 1611, and your interpretation will come to be known as Ruckmanism. The souls you save, should they cling to your teachings, will become Ruckmanites. As far as cults go, Ruckmanism is as close as you can get to a cult without renouncing your worldly possessions and turning over your bank information.

Though Ruckman died in 2016, the teachings of Ruckmanism remain relevant to certain Bible-believing Christians who adhere to King James Onlyism. Dr. Ruckman was a viciously smart preacher who could read upwards of 700 words a minute and re-read the bible dozens of times a year. One of the core tenets of Ruckmanism is that the original King James Bible was divinely inspired to the point that it is more accurate than the Greek texts from which it was translated, which is a bridge too far even for many Christian literalists.

Dr. Ruckman was also a vicious drunk, womanizer, domestic abuser, and racist. Through Ruckman's interpretation of the Bible, Black Americans were meant to be subservient, the Jews were meant to serve as a sacrifice for the second coming of Jesus, and Catholicism was a satanic cult.

In Part 2: Divine Fascism we dive into the historical context of the Religious Right and how evangelical Christians became so emboldened as to propose legislation explicitly pushing their own batshit crazy beliefs upon the entire nation.

We're discussing the Moral Majority, the Heritage Foundation, the John Birch Society, and the anti-semitic/anti-democratic/fascist trio of the 1930s: Gerald LK Smith, William D. Pelley, and Gerald Winrod, whose beliefs and publications have a direct link to today's Religious Right.

House Bill 874 is possibly the most batshit crazy document I've ever read - and I've read "Your Best Life Now" by Joel Osteen. House Bill 874 was introduced in 2022 to impose a national year of humiliation, fasting, and prayer, meant to deliver our wayward nation from sin and back into the loving arms of a Christian god.

Lifelong friend and inventor of the game show "That's not food get it out of your mouth" Corey joins me again to discuss the finer and crazier points of HB 874 and its champion, Washington Rep. Cathy McMorris Rogers.

Rogers, a radical pietist, is a Bible literalist and boring Republican. No original thoughts. What kind of person believes the government has the authority to enact an entire year of humiliation, fasting, and prayer? Well, a fascist, for one. But also a Christian nationalist with a loose grip on reality. Part One Dives into the meat of a bill and an examination of Rogers' theological framework.