Weakness for Bleakness

Bleaker than before

Hey Bleakers. We run through the basics of Super Tuesday: what happened, why, fuck, why, all that. Also got a little discussion on the closure of the Australian Associated Press, plus some mindless diversions about Dr Hook and the Welsh Herring Guy.

Take it easy.

Hey everybody, it's Darcy's Grab Bag! A series of small treats and tidbits from the warm pouch of Melbourne's favourite son. We got a Dutton bite, a Weinstein bite, a Cashless Welfare Card Bite, a Transport Union fracas bite, and I think maybe another small morsel in the bottom of the bag.

Moron alert: listening to this during editing made it crystal clear how little we can be trusted with basic arithmetic involving simple rounded numbers. Almost every claim involving simple addition, subtraction or multiplication is an error - see if you can spot them all!

After a very brief touch on the NH primary and Darcy's experience protesting in the stupid opulence of the Crown lobby, we look into the scandal surrounding Bridget McKenzie and the allocation of sport club grants - the most boring dogshit in the world, right? Wrong. It's a tale of twists and turns and this is the level at which the average Aussie is interested in politics so god damn it anyway.

It's a big look at the absolute disaster that was the Iowa Caucus, the opening moves in the intolerable chess game that constitutes the Democratic Primary in the US. Wanted to gloss over this one but unfortunately it's like a John Le Carre novel if it were written by John Kennedy Toole.

New Year Same Old Us. What we've done here, essentially, dear Bleakers, is accidentally record two episodes instead of one. Our opening "wee chat" constitutes the first episode, where we talk about the US Democrat Party primaries again (I promise, only another interminable several months of this shit) and about the Witcher TV show.

For the "actual" episode, starting about an hour in, we get emotionally distraught talking about the bushfire crisis and then wind things back with a look at the profoundly stupid Rolling Stone article about Russian "trolls".

Ay bleakers, sorry we been away. As penance we've put together this interminable 2.5 hour Christmas/Hannukah/Holiday Season special episode to tide you over. It's not, like, Christmas themed or anything, it's just happening at Christmas. Basically we just take a bit of a gander at what's going on in Australia, the UK and the US.

Plus a few little extras like a terrible conversation about our high schools and a game that Darcy's designed to foster peace between the warring generations.

Was gonna do a "Terror Tory" double pun but tbh Labor are fully culpable too in today's topic from Darcy: The Northern Territory "Intervention".

Plus, listen to a sleepy Kieran give a run-down on FBI profile-em-up "Mindhunter".

Happy bleaking.

We've streamlined our format! After a bumbling start of outstanding business and two new peerless and definitely funny characters Kieran's cooked up we dig into the preposterous shit going on with Julian Assange at the moment and then have a semi-directionless rumination on horror movies. Even our episode descriptions are getting more concise.

We have an exclusive, unique thing that no other podcast or media outlet of any sort is offering: Two white dudes talking about Joker. We also talk about the huge child forfeiture crisis happening due to NDIS delays as well, just to cut dumb with harrowing.

In stories, we have Babymarch, Epsteinkin Park, The Incredible Climate Moron and a MUSK UPDATE.