Wildfires are raging, and so are political debates. In this episode of Deviant Lounge, we explore the futility of blaming others for natural catastrophes and discuss how to focus on real solutions. Welcome🍸 ✨ to Deviant Lounge — Contact us at DeviantLounge.com

This listener-requested follow-up to our last episode talks about what drives people to embrace extreme ideologies like jihad or MAGA. Before the labels, what underlying factors shaped their actions? We explore personality traits, trauma, and mental illness to uncover the deeper story behind these intense beliefs. Welcome🍸 ✨ to Deviant Lounge — Contact us at DeviantLounge.com

Labels can make or break how we see ourselves and each other. In this episode of Deviant Lounge, we compare two recent stories with striking similarities but wildly different labels—terrorist vs. mentally ill. How do labels shape narratives, justice, and identity? Welcome🍸 ✨ to Deviant Lounge — Contact us at DeviantLounge.com

Goodpods is one of the newer podcast listening and social apps that connects podcasters with listeners. Today I share my love/hate relation with the app, and my favorite indie podcasters from Goodpods going into 2025 including: Mama D, Cindy, Reena, Kervin, George, and Keb (from Unfiltered Studios). Welcome🍸 ✨ to Deviant Lounge — Contact us at DeviantLounge.com

From Luigi to the truck attacker in New Orleans, and even the mentally ill Tesla truck Trump protestor in Vegas — they all had at least one thing in common. They were angry. But, were they “terrorists?” Were they programmed from an early age with an ideology from a known enemy of American democracy? Or, were they simply angry at their powerlessness in a Capitalist society and decided they wanted to go out with their own definitions of a clear conscience? Who do some protests miss the mark so badly? Welcome🍸 ✨ to Deviant Lounge — Contact us at DeviantLounge.com

We're talking about holiday traditions like being left out and the best time to take down all the decorations. We heard about the right-wingers fighting each other over H1B immigrants, America First, and Blue Check censorship running rampant in Elon Musk's world. We don't care. We warned you this would happen. If you are not 100% with them, they are 100% against you. Figure it out, geniuses. Welcome🍸 ✨ to Deviant Lounge — Contact us at DeviantLounge.com

The headline says it all — Millennials Are 40-year-old 70-year-olds. Why are so many 40-year-olds acting older than 50 and 60-year-olds? Because they were programmed by Boomers. Welcome🍸 ✨ to Deviant Lounge — Contact us at DeviantLounge.com

From Charles Manson and his recent “interviewer” ('Making Manson' on Peacock) to Luigi the Alleged Assassin — and maybe even that vanished MAGA kid who allegedly shot Trump in the ear, everybody wants to be noticed for their own righteous cause. But, how far is too far? What happens when the copycat heroes start sharing their madness on social media? The entertainment industry has taken over news, sports, politics, and now … terror? So, why do we watch? Why do we enable it all? Welcome🍸 ✨ to Deviant Lounge — Contact us at DeviantLounge.com

Subscriptions keep people enslaved to international technology corporations through unnecessary monthly payments, and by limiting the reach of deviant speech. This has allowed the billionaire class, via their media platforms, to convince the poor to fight each other over culture instead of focusing their anger at the authoritarians and plutocrats. Welcome🍸 ✨ to Deviant Lounge — Contact us at DeviantLounge.com

Bootleg’s old film industry buddy Not James Spader came up to the Bay Area and sat in with us. His lawyer said we could Not use his name. So, yeah. This is us doing a podcast episode with Not James Spader. Welcome🍸 ✨ to Deviant Lounge — Contact us at DeviantLounge.com