Weakness for Bleakness

Oh no! Einstein was a racist! We discuss the implications of the revelation that a German man in the 20s held racist opinions and the dangers of sacralising heroes, but it turns into a narcissistic contemplation of the ramifications of our own inevitable fame. Also, a little primer and debunk of the arse-backwards theory behind trickle-down economics.

And in headlines: We got a political witch hunt, only the witch is a monster, and real, and worth hunting, and Peter Dutton. We got the ABC privatisation vote cockup from the Liberal party peak council. We got more microparty farce courtesy of Clive Palmer and his gormless candidates. And we got Elon Musk throwing his workers into a thresher for the sake of promises he fails to deliver on.

What happens to art under socialism? There are scraps of murky conversation across the internet and a body of old theory, but people aren't talking about it a lot, so we do. Then we talk about co-ops, what they are, what they do, and how they might help industry to navigate late stage capitalism.

And in headlines: Victoria has socialists, the Libs have failed to launch their anti-charity sedition law Trojan horse, Paul Dacre's been hidden in the attic after several unchecked years of coating the kitchen walls in poo, and good news for s'wits everywhere, another rickety Elder Scrolls game is coming sometime in the next decade.

Bonus game: Through fatigue or incorrect word selection, Kieran wildly mis-judges at least three spans of time - see if you can spot them all!

It's all about crime, criminality, criminals and criminy this week, as seen through the lens of the Andrews government's "tough on crime" posturing.

And in headlines: recycling is futile, superannuation is impoverishing us, Melania is missing, and the ways in which pro-small business rhetoric from banks might just be an attempt to sell a million-dollar dress-ups costume.

Plagued by technical difficulties, the boys nevertheless manage to discuss the US's attempts to one-up Australian villainy in the immigration department before Darcy brings us another brief on language clarity.

In headlines: the Labor part conference standstill, the inner-city housing market dip, the starved public medical system and the prospect of getting a personal call from a man who once acted in a creamed corn commercial in 1987.

It's all market horror from an ill Kieran and gross sexual misconduct from a less ill but no less beleaguered Darcy in the headlines this week. But don't worry, because we wash that bitter pill down with a circuitous, despairing discussion of the Gaza massacre. All this bleakness is making me thirsty.

Also at one point Kieran calls Roger Ailes "Bill Ailes" by accident. It's not a big deal.

It's the most exciting thing in the world: a budget episode! We cover some of the most egregious grab-hands of the latest Coalition budget and take a look at Shortman's reply; how it sought to whelm us, the whelming methods it employs and how a little more whelming could've gone a long way.

In headlines, there's a 200-year-old man touching the kids, an invisible hand touching China, a desperate party failing to touch the polls, and an American Hero exhorting us to touch the beehive of international tension.

This week, Darcy's trying to curtail your religious freedom to wage death upon the public and Kieran's as typically feckless and work-shy as any other self-entitled millenial. We go deep on some terminology so that any accusations of intellectual laxity are confined to our morality and work ethic, and we take a squiz at the circus surrounding the latest missives from the Prophet Kanye West.

Modest Mussorgsky's Night on Bald Mountain performed by the Skidmore College Orchestra

This week, Darcy's trying to curtail your religious freedom to wage death upon the public and Kieran's as typically feckless and work-shy as any other self-entitled millenial. We go deep on some terminology so that any accusations of intellectual laxity are confined to our morality and work ethic, and we take a squiz at the circus surrounding the latest missives from the Prophet Kanye West.

Modest Mussorgsky's Night on Bald Mountain performed by the Skidmore College Orchestra

Now with all baffling pitch issues fixed! Kieran is staggeringly ignorant about the state of piscine gastronomy in the USA and Darcy brings troubling portents from Godzilla's pelagic kingdom. We talk about Lyca Mobile's involvement in governmental corruption so naked it'll make you blush, then check in on the vitals of the alt-right.