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  • Premium Episode 70: Party in Pristine Park, USA (Sample)

    Premium Episode 70: Party in Pristine Park, USA (Sample)
    2026/04/17
    Welcome to Pristine Park, Ohio where the beer is light, the fireworks are silent, and everyone parties like it's the 4th of July, Polish style. This is a sample of a premium episode. Sign up to listen to the entire episode. patreon.com/wetwired I ambush Jules with a surprise recording session where I treat him to the story of the 4th of July LARPers. Based in Poland, for the last few years they've put on a 3 day live role playing session based around their takes on staples of American society. Set in the fictional Pristine Park trailer park, the 4th of July LARP isn't only a send up of the trailer park culture, it manages to be an incisive review of American society and the terrible turns of events that befall just about all of us. Fly your crypto-leftist flag with our personal love letter to Juan José Arévalo, philosopher and socialist president of Guatemala, and the airline he nationalized. wetwired.printful.me/
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    9 分
  • Episode 94: Star Trek Socialism feat Aaron Thorpe

    Episode 94: Star Trek Socialism feat Aaron Thorpe
    2026/04/11
    Damn, this was a fun chat! Today we have Aaron Thorpe from The Trillbillies with us! Aaron’s hanging out with us today to talk about two of my favorite things: Star Trek and socialism. Subscribe on Patreon to support making this show, get premium only episodes, and listen to our entire back catalog. patreon.com/wetwired We also have as an unofficial second guest, the spirit of Kurt Schiller from Podside Picnic and formerly of Blood Knife magazine. He wasn't on the show but we talked about him quite a few times during this episode. I keep asking myself, what is it about that show that keeps me coming back and watching episodes and seasons over and over again? At least one of the reasons is the social values. Over and over again you see characters acting out a way of viewing the world that is entirely different from any examples I see in my own life. Just before we recorded, Kurt serendipitously posted on Substack an infinitely more eloquent exposition of this idea. Kurt describes the characters of Star Trek: The Next Generation as: [W]eird, ethics-obsessed utopian naval officers with a very particular culture and outlook that's not our own. They don't act like us, talk like us, and for the most part they don't really think like us. In fact, many of the aliens they encounter resemble modern people much more than the Federation - this was also the case in the original series, and both series use the Federation characters to comment on modern day society by imbuing alien species with our modern attributes (petty squabbles, greed, various culture wars, etc) while the Federation characters observe and comment from a fundamentally different viewpoint. Read Kurt's entire post here: https://substack.com/@knifepoint/note/c-227691504 The values defined throughout the early Star Trek series aren't just coincidental to the economic structure of the Federation, they're essential to creating and maintaining it. You can't get to their post-currency, post-scarcity world with replicators alone. You need to want it first, the replicators come later. Find Aaron online and check him out on The Trillbillies https://x.com/afrocosmist https://x.com/thetrillbillies Find Kurt on Substack https://substack.com/@knifepoint https://x.com/PodsideP Follow Wetwired on social https://x.com/wetwiredpod Subscribe on Patreon to support making this show, get premium only episodes, and listen to our entire back catalog. patreon.com/wetwired Our long promised merch is here!! Fly your crypto-leftist flag with our personal love letter to Juan José Arévalo, philosopher and socialist president of Guatemala, and the airline he nationalized. wetwired.printful.me/ Music: Airglow - Spliff and Wesson (CC-BY)
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    2 時間 7 分
  • Episode 93: Iran So Far Away

    Episode 93: Iran So Far Away
    2026/04/03
    In week 4 or so of Trump’s bumblings around in the Middle East, and after declaring victory a couple of times already, Trump has said that he’s willing to end the war as long as Iran agrees to just put things back the way they were before the US started bombing them and assassinated their leader. Subscribe on Patreon to support making this show, get premium only episodes, and listen to our entire back catalog. patreon.com/wetwired That’s just not good enough for some for the true Iran warmongers out there. We read from William Luti to hear some unhinged Iran war maximalism, learn about Trump's big uranium heist, and check in to see how AIPAC is doing in the midterms this year (not too good). Subscribe on Patreon to support making this show, get premium only episodes, and listen to our entire back catalog. patreon.com/wetwired Our long promised merch is here!! Fly your crypto-leftist flag with our personal love letter to Juan José Arévalo, philosopher and socialist president of Guatemala, and the airline he nationalized. wetwired.printful.me/ Music: Airglow - Spliff and Wesson (CC-BY)
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    1 時間 4 分
  • Premium Episode 69: Cyberbullying Nazis / I Always Wanted to Be a Groyper, Part 4

    Premium Episode 69: Cyberbullying Nazis / I Always Wanted to Be a Groyper, Part 4
    2026/03/29
    Last time we trashed the standard narrative that modern conservative movements are organic, bottom-up uprisings. Instead, what has appeared to be grassroots radicalization and mobilization is more often a soup of grievance politics stirred by elite capture and institutional control. Conservative power is less spontaneous rebellion, and mostly a coordinated, long-term business class welfare project. This is a sample of a premium episode. Sign up to listen to the entire episode. patreon.com/wetwired Whether we’re talking about anti-abortion campaigns, fighting gay marriage, or resisting the Equal Rights Amendment, what looks like ground-up conservative mobilization has been shaped and reshaped by elite priorities or simply absorbed and redirected toward preexisting economic goals. No doubt, grassroots anger is real but when it translates to policy (lol) it tends to preserve donor-class interests, with the scantiest symbolic concessions masking structural continuity. For every bathroom bill, there’s a corporate tax break. Popular outrage supplies energy, legitimacy, and votes, while elites retain control over funding, media ecosystems, legal pipelines, and economic policy. The result is a kinder and more gentle managed populism mobilized from below, governed from above—where the appearance of radical change often conceals long-term institutional stability. There are probably some true believers up at the top who hate trans people and immigrants, but those people are also self-maximizing actors and they’re never going to pass on that sweet free government money. Now we’re going to pick up where we left off last time with the identity crisis of modern conservatism from the post-9/11 era through the Tea Party, the proto-Chad Alt-Right, Trump 1, through grandpa’s turn at the wheel, and into Trump 2 and the current Heritage/MAGA realignment. Each apparent insurgency: the Tea Party, message board white nationalism and even QAnon has been either financed, absorbed, or neutralized by existing power structures, with grievance politics serving as fuel for institutional continuity. What looks like political insurgency settles into consolidation, as factions spin out, rebrand, and are folded back into the broader conservative coalition. When the dust settles, it’s always money who’s left standing. Fly your crypto-leftist flag with our personal love letter to Juan José Arévalo, philosopher and socialist president of Guatemala, and the airline he nationalized. wetwired.printful.me/
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    8 分
  • Episode 92: Good Fences

    Episode 92: Good Fences
    2026/03/20
    We get into the first five episodes of the HBO series Neighbors. What begins as a collection of petty disputes over lawns, fences, animals, and property lines quickly reveals something much deeper: a culture defined by paranoia, hyper-individualism, and the slow collapse of shared reality. Subscribe on Patreon to support making this show, get premium only episodes, and listen to our entire back catalog. patreon.com/wetwired From beachfront property battles in Florida to rural land feuds in Montana, suburban homesteading experiments in Indiana, and conspiracy-fueled standoffs in Texas, the show profiles a collection of misfits. And every one of them is convinced they’re in the right. And every one of them is also completely incapable of resolving their conflict. We have some chilling takeaways about how prominently surveillance culture (everyone is filming everyone) figures into nearly every neighbor feud, how actively posting about their beefs on social media virtually guarantees disputes will escalate, and how the convergence of conspiracy thinking, New Age spirituality, and political identity all but ensures a person will be a pig headed ass. We get into property rights and the legacy of Enlightenment brain worms, home ownership as a retirement plan (bad idea), American's obsession with lawns, and how getting the police involved never helps. If there’s one lesson to take away, it’s this: if you have neighbors, you’re on your own. You’d better figure out how to live with them. Subscribe on Patreon to support making this show, get premium only episodes, and listen to our entire back catalog. patreon.com/wetwired Our long promised merch is here!! Fly your crypto-leftist flag with our personal love letter to Juan José Arévalo, philosopher and socialist president of Guatemala, and the airline he nationalized. wetwired.printful.me/ Music:Airglow - Spliff and Wesson (CC-BY)
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    1 時間 20 分
  • Episode 91: Building a Base / I Always Wanted to Be a Groyper, Part 3

    Episode 91: Building a Base / I Always Wanted to Be a Groyper, Part 3
    2026/03/01
    It might seem counterintuitive but conservative movements in the US are repeatedly shaped by donors, think tanks, and institutions not organic grassroots uprisings. Name the popular movement and 9 times out of 10 there's money interests behind it. And when the movement is genuinely organic, it's almost immediately co-opted by elites. Subscribe on Patreon to support making this show, get premium only episodes, and listen to our entire back catalog. patreon.com/wetwired From the Powell Memo through think tanks like the Heritage Foundation, the rise of the Christian Right, and the legal infrastructure built by groups like the Federalist Society. The business elites, donors, media ecosystems, and culture-war politics fused neoliberal economics with religious nationalism and racial grievance. The throughline is continuity: each new “movement” is a remix of the same elite strategy: mobilize popular resentment while consolidating wealth and power at the top. All this makes you wonder whether there has ever been a genuinely conservative movement in the US. Subscribe on Patreon to support making this show, get premium only episodes, and listen to our entire back catalog. patreon.com/wetwired
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    1 時間 21 分
  • Premium Episode 69: Down on the Baby Farm (Sample)

    Premium Episode 69: Down on the Baby Farm (Sample)
    2026/02/14
    We talk about important culture war fights that conservatives will always think are destroying the fabric of America before moving on to something that conservatives couldn’t care less about—a global cabal of ultra wealthy pedophiles, and it’s dead ringleader, Jeffrey Epstein. This is a sample of a premium episode. Sign up to listen to the entire episode. patreon.com/wetwired Last month’s release of 3 million or so Epstein documents has churned up dozens of subterranean connections between Epstein and diplomats, government ministers, tech billionaires, scientists, and academics. The files have also resurfaced Epstein’s longstanding fascination with gene editing and cloning, and how told friends about wanting to use his New Mexico ranch as a baby farm to create a new race of humans. We review the 2019 investigation opened and quickly closed by the Attorney General of New Mexico, Epstein's genomics interests over the years, and wonder why so many ultra-wealthy weirdos are so into transhumanism. Check out our first merch offering! Now you can fly your crypto-leftist flag and still be completely under the radar with our personal love letter to Juan José Arévalo, philosopher and socialist president of Guatemala, and the airline he nationalized. wetwired.printful.me/
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    9 分
  • Episode 90: Law and Order / I Always Wanted To Be a Groyper, Part 2

    Episode 90: Law and Order / I Always Wanted To Be a Groyper, Part 2
    2026/02/10
    Last episode, we talked about the brewing conflict between what currently passes for mainstream conservatism and the schizophrenic reactionary Groyper politics of Nick Fuentes. Subscribe on Patreon to support making this show, get premium only episodes, and listen to our entire back catalog. patreon.com/wetwired We wrapped things up with the idea that conservatism has never really bothered to conserve anything. Aside from a few exceptions, most of the time they keep themselves busy fighting culture wars about immigration, civil rights, women’s rights, Christianity, and demonizing organized labor. What they keep trying to “conserve” is whatever the status quo power dynamic was when their grandad was a kid. After the Civil War, they wanted slavery back. Women’s suffrage, desegregation—they wanted to get rid of all those things. This isn’t the first fight inside conservatism. As part of its periodic reinvention of itself, conservatives have gone back to the political well and dredged up the same slogans more than once. We tied this malleable idea of conservatism in with the evolution of the field of unashamed ideological political economists into what we now think of as the pseudoscience of Economics. At least the political economists were up front about whatever ideological bent they had. If you were a socialist, you’d start with your convictions about socialism being the absolute best way of running society on offer, and they work to come up with an economic theory or plan that made it seem possible. It was honest. By the time the 1800s were wrapping up, that wasn’t good enough. Economists wanted to be taken more seriously, so they started dressing the whole thing up like they were doing physics or pure math. They could talk about whatever economic system as if they were describing the laws of nature. That didn’t get rid of the ideology, though. It just buried it under metric tons of academic jargon and complicated formulas. After all, what’s the difference between modeling a tsunami and a stock market crash? The answer is that the tsunami wasn’t caused by Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan. That all brings us around to FDR’s New Deal and the era of John Maynard Keynes and what Matt Christman has called his "Keynesian machine for dispensing treats". As many contradictions as Keynes gathered into his economic model, it remains the only proven way to maintain capitalism. To set the tone, David Talbot has a quote in his book The Devil’s Chessboard about Bertie Pell, a friend of FDR’s who Talbot described as a “full-on traitor to his class”. “I am almost the last capitalist who is willing to be saved by you,” Pell wrote Roosevelt in 1936 in a letter beseeching the president to draft him for the New Deal cause. The following year, Pell wrote again, praising FDR’s accomplishments: “Your administration has made possible the continuance of American institutions for at least fifty years. You have done for the government what St. Francis did for the Catholic Church. You have brought it back to the people.” It turns out Pell was eerily correct. Those institutions managed to last just a little longer than 50 years. They are about gone now, though. Our long promised merch is here!! Fly your crypto-leftist flag with our personal love letter to Juan José Arévalo, philosopher and socialist president of Guatemala, and the airline he nationalized. wetwired.printful.me/ Subscribe on Patreon to support making this show, get premium only episodes, and listen to our entire back catalog. patreon.com/wetwired Music:Airglow - Spliff and Wesson (CC-BY)
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    1 時間 5 分