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The Society Show

The Society Show

By Christian Patterson

The Society Show is about in-depth international, societal, and cultural news with a soundboard and propaganda mixed in.

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Ep 115: Rise up against Spotify

Ep 115: Rise up against Spotify

The Society Show with Christian Patterson is a podcast about society, featuring DJ Ski Doo and the Society Show Soundboard Band, with World Renowned Organist Roy Dickerson! It is now the new era of the Society Show - Season Seven, recorded live(-to-tape) at the beautiful Lorena Bobbitt Theatre in beautiful North Seattle. This episode includes:
- Spotify is oppressing the show with their copyright claims, so guess what censors, I did a little f you at the beginning!
- I had a prophetic dream...
- New plank to my presidential platform: Make Altoids more popular again!
- Is Witcher 3 a masterpiece of a video game?
- How the best sports video games show how very simple mechanics can still be fun
- Explosion at the Pennsylvania chocolate factory
- US bombs Syrians in Syria, Saudi Arabia potentially on the verge of reestablishing ties with Syria
- Washington State senator Maria Cantwell is an attack dog for Microsoft against Sony
All of that, and much much more, this is the Society Show!
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Mar 30, 202337:17
Ep 114: Bring back Pilotwings

Ep 114: Bring back Pilotwings

The Society Show with Christian Patterson is a podcast about society, featuring DJ Ski Doo and the Society Show Soundboard Band, with World Renowned Organist Roy Dickerson! It is now the new era of the Society Show - Season Seven, recorded live(-to-tape) at the beautiful Lorena Bobbitt Theatre in beautiful North Seattle. This episode includes: - A heartfelt apology to my community for the poor audio quality from last episode
- New presidential planks: Abolish Daylight Savings Time
- Other new presidential plank: Bring back Pilotwings!
- An anonymous listener wrote a poem for my campaign
- US neocons sabre rattling against Mexican cartels, and how invading Mexico would be an act of war against them
- The CIA, in collaboration with a favored Mexican cartel, likely ordered the assassination of a DEA agent who was onto the Iran-Contra Affair
- Our tech reporter left his wife for an AI, then gets whiney when she doesn't remember
- AMLO recently semi-nationalized the Mexican lithium industry, goes after lame organization called INE
- The Democratic Party self-sabotages by potentially banning TikTok
- Imran Khan's background, and how he became such a prominent figure in Pakistan
- The US's alleged interference in Pakistan, urging the government to get rid of Khan, which they did
- The confusion from major protests, police raids, court cases, and much more revolving around Imran Khan in Pakistan
All of that, and much much more, this is the Society Show!
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Mar 23, 202353:60
Ep 113: Kony 2024, Iran Saudi Deal, strikes in France

Ep 113: Kony 2024, Iran Saudi Deal, strikes in France

The Society Show with Christian Patterson is a podcast about society, featuring DJ Ski Doo and the Society Show Soundboard Band, with World Renowned Organist Roy Dickerson! It is now the new era of the Society Show - Season Seven, recorded live(-to-tape) at the beautiful Lorena Bobbitt Theatre in beautiful North Seattle. This episode includes:
- Sadly, this episode's recording sounds worse than normal -- the production team screwed up!
- Late Night at the Chuckle Cafe: What's going on with all these damn genders?
- The USA is READY for a podcaster president
- One of the planks of my platform: Abolish filing taxes
- Another plank of my platform: Bring Fritz-Kola to the US!
- Welcome former African warlord Joseph Kony to my 2024 campaign!
- I can't relate to the young people, what do they like?
- The Last of Us model of apocalypse, eliminating most of the world's population
- There have been many apocalypses throughout history, what about a "small apocalypse"?
- Silicon Valley Banks failure and bailout
- How China helped Saudi Arabia and Iran re-establish ties
- The major protests and strikes in France over pushing the retirement age back 2 years
All of that, and much much more, this is the Society Show!
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Mar 16, 202345:36
Ep 112: Christian for President 2024!

Ep 112: Christian for President 2024!

The Society Show with Christian Patterson is a podcast about society, featuring DJ Ski Doo and the Society Show Soundboard Band, with World Renowned Organist Roy Dickerson! It is now the new era of the Society Show - Season Seven, recorded live(-to-tape) at the beautiful Lorena Bobbitt Theatre in beautiful North Seattle. This episode includes:
- Christian is running for president 2024, as a MLM Prachanda Path Costanzaist
-As I campaign against too bright headlights, a Big Headlight stooge stormed the stage
- Pablo Escobar's former pet hippos have turned into an invasive species in Colombia
- The Native American Indian bones passed down for generations, used as teaching aides at UC Berkeley
- The Democratic Republic of Congo asks France for sanctions against Rwanda
- Tensions heat up between Congo and Rwanda, due to Tutsi rebels in east Congo
- Interview with Bunker Boy, a strange anonymous listener who is obsessed with bunkers
- Filipino politician was killed by group of assassins while visiting constituents
- Nobel Peace Prize winner from Belarus detained for 10 years for planning protests
- Sketch: People worked really hard at the office!
All of that, and much much more, this is the Society Show!
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Mar 09, 202340:37
Ep 111: Mexico, Tech reporter interviews AI, and an announcement...

Ep 111: Mexico, Tech reporter interviews AI, and an announcement...

The Society Show with Christian Patterson is a podcast about society, featuring DJ Ski Doo and the Society Show Soundboard Band, with World Renowned Organist Roy Dickerson! It is now the new era of the Society Show - Season Seven, recorded live(-to-tape) at the beautiful Lorena Bobbitt Theatre in beautiful North Seattle. This episode includes:
- Mexican President AMLO moves to semi-nationalize the lithium industry
- The protests about AMLO and his attempt to make an independent election monitoring agency
- The Felipe Calderon administration and their ties to the Sinaloa Drug Cartel
- I will be running for president 2024!!
- My platform: I will ban too-bright headlights!
- As president, I will advocate for vegetable oil in diesel engines
- What's the deal with people in first class getting on the plane first?
- Our tech reporter interviews a sentient AI
- I interview Georg Fugger of the Swabian Fugger family of Kirchberg und Weissenhorn
- Billionaire Gautam Adani, officially denounced by the show, has been allegedly been doing major fraud
All of that, and much much more, this is the Society Show!
Visit the website: societyshow.net
Contact the show at societyshowpodcast@gmail.com
Follow the show on twitter: @society_show

Mar 02, 202338:40
Ep 110: Mothers Against Secondhand Smoke (MASS)

Ep 110: Mothers Against Secondhand Smoke (MASS)

The Society Show with Christian Patterson is a podcast about society, featuring DJ Ski Doo and the Society Show Soundboard Band, with World Renowned Organist Roy Dickerson! It is now the new era of the Society Show - Season Seven, recorded live(-to-tape) at the beautiful Lorena Bobbitt Theatre in beautiful North Seattle. This episode includes:
- After my "pro-secondhand smoking" statements last episode, I have been cancelled, and offer my condolences
- My thoughts on political and social differences between the US and Mexico
- The show's returning intern: Ben Laden
- Top 10 reasons Ben dropped out of Chico State University
- The balloons shot down by the US military
- My interview with show organist Roy Dickerson
- The earthquake in Turkey and Syria, and the propaganda around international aid
- The US (allegedly) blew up Nordstream 2 pipeline
- Funeral for my intern who died in a Tesla explosion
All of that, and much much more, this is the Society Show!
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Contact the show at societyshowpodcast@gmail.com
Follow the show on twitter: @society_show

Feb 24, 202346:37
Ep 109: My intern's tragic death in a Tesla explosion, Double Agent Pollard

Ep 109: My intern's tragic death in a Tesla explosion, Double Agent Pollard

The Society Show with Christian Patterson is a podcast about society, featuring DJ Ski Doo and the Society Show Soundboard Band, with World Renowned Organist Roy Dickerson! It is now the new era of the Society Show - Season Seven, recorded live(-to-tape) at the beautiful Lorena Bobbitt Theatre in beautiful North Seattle. This episode includes:
- The show's intern, Napoleon Hitler, tragically perished in a Tesla explosion
- The Silver Lining with Mark Silver: Trump polls higher than DeSantis in a poll - is he reclaiming his throne?
- A respiratory illness spreads in North Korea -- it may be covid, but DPRK won't confirm because they had claimed to have defeated covid
- Rwanda attempts to shoot down Congolese airplane
- Nigeria opens a Chinese-built deep sea port
- You've heard of BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa), but what about MINT (Mexico, Indonesia, Nigeria, Turkey)?
- More on South Park, and how it has some bad messages, but ultimately, the messages they choose to advance are bold
- Christian takes a strangely PRO-secondhand smoke position?
- Mel Gibson's antisemitism
- The recent coup of Pedro Castillo in Peru
- Turkey obstructing Sweden's NATO membership, ostensibly for allowing Quran burnings
- This episode was sponsored by Blackrock
All of that, and much much more, this is the Society Show!
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Feb 02, 202301:01:26
Ep 108: Ideology of the Oligarchs

Ep 108: Ideology of the Oligarchs

The Society Show with Christian Patterson is a podcast about society, featuring DJ Ski Doo and the Society Show Soundboard Band, with World Renowned Organist Roy Dickerson! It is now the new era of the Society Show - Season Seven, recorded live(-to-tape) at the beautiful Lorena Bobbitt Theatre in beautiful North Seattle. This episode includes:
- South Park, and how tv can never really be as controversial, in the same way anymore
- Pokemon Scarlet and Violet, and Ash being written off Pokemon
- The ideology of the oligarchs like eugenics, Effective Altruism, voluntary human extinction, and future obsession
- The Moneyball-ification of society, and how people treat everything like a video game to min/max
- How tech oligarchs care first and foremost about capital preservation, and how that informs their ideology
- Rene Girard, and his claimed connections to Peter Thiel
- A true blue old school real American hardass on fentanyl and sissy boy commentators
- CBS's Pubescent Sheldon episode 3: Hanging out with Grandpa Richard Hermitage
All of that, and much much more, this is the Society Show!
Visit the website: societyshow.net
Contact the show at societyshowpodcast@gmail.com
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Dec 22, 202201:01:58
Ep 107: Valerie Plame and the CIA Gang w/ Patthew

Ep 107: Valerie Plame and the CIA Gang w/ Patthew

The Society Show with Christian Patterson is a podcast about society, featuring DJ Ski Doo and the Society Show Soundboard Band, with World Renowned Organist Roy Dickerson! It is now the new era of the Society Show - Season Seven, recorded live(-to-tape) at the beautiful Lorena Bobbitt Theatre in beautiful North Seattle. This episode includes:
- The CIA podcast Langley Files, and how horribly it does at describing the CIA
- The CIA's presentation that they are apolitical and do not write policy
- The Plame Affair and the the reveal of Valerie Plame, a secret CIA agent to the American public
- How Valerie Plame is the side-effect damage of a pro-war smear campaign
- The entanglement of journalists and politicians sharing information
- The parallels between Russiagate and the Plame Affair
- Elden Ring, Homefront: the Revolution, Pokemon Violet and Scarlet, Sekiro, and more video games
All of that, and much much more, this is the Society Show!
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Contact the show at societyshowpodcast@gmail.com
Follow the show on twitter: @society_show

Dec 15, 202201:11:18
Ep 106: Minute MAiD, sponsored by Burger King

Ep 106: Minute MAiD, sponsored by Burger King

The Society Show with Christian Patterson is a podcast about society, featuring DJ Ski Doo and the Society Show Soundboard Band, with World Renowned Organist Roy Dickerson! It is now the new era of the Society Show - Season Seven, recorded live(-to-tape) at the beautiful Lorena Bobbitt Theatre in beautiful North Seattle. This episode includes:
- A sponsorship by Burger King! Whopper whopper whopper whopper!
- The CBS/NPR/Society Show crossover: Pubescent Sheldon's Thanksgiving with Adnan Sayed
- A spate of mail bombings in Spain seemingly targeting pro-Ukrainian politicians and manufacturers
- New York City's new policy to involuntarily detain people into mental hospitals
- MAiD, Canada's euthanasia program, and how it applies to mentally ill people
All of that, and much much more, this is the Society Show!
Visit the website: societyshow.net
Contact the show at societyshowpodcast@gmail.com
Follow the show on twitter: @society_show

Dec 08, 202235:14
Ep 105: Motorsports, World Cup, dual-wielding twinblades w/ Matt

Ep 105: Motorsports, World Cup, dual-wielding twinblades w/ Matt

The Society Show with Christian Patterson is a podcast about society, featuring DJ Ski Doo and the Society Show Soundboard Band, with World Renowned Organist Roy Dickerson! It is now the new era of the Society Show - Season Seven, recorded live(-to-tape) at the beautiful Lorena Bobbitt Theatre in beautiful North Seattle. Our guest this episode is none other than Society Show Auto Sports correspondent Matt Burroughs, of tehben.com. This episode includes:

- Society Show quiz: Elden Ring boss or death metal band?

- The FIFA World Cup, including Qatar's human rights violations and how we would change the rules of soccer

- The labyrinth of watching sports, and how its split between so many platforms

- How nonconventional sports are getting their chance to shine due to how difficult it can be to watch sports

- F1 and how its the sport of engineering

- How teams interact with each other in motorsports, and how its different from F1 and NASCAR

- How F1's economy works

- Ross Chastain driving his car against a wall

- Ty Gibbs, the annoying little twerp of NASCAR

- Racing video games: NASCAR Thunder, Gran Turismo, iRacing, and more

All of that, and much much more, this is the Society Show!

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Dec 01, 202201:06:43
Ep 104: Crushes and Stampedes, Pubescent Sheldon

Ep 104: Crushes and Stampedes, Pubescent Sheldon

The Society Show with Christian Patterson is a podcast about society, featuring DJ Ski Doo and the Society Show Soundboard Band, with World Renowned Organist Roy Dickerson! It is now the new era of the Society Show - Season Seven, recorded live(-to-tape) at the beautiful Lorena Bobbitt Theatre in beautiful North Seattle. This episode includes:

- The Society Show monologue: World cup, goats, Nancy Pelosi, and Elon Musk's Twitter

- The shooting at the Colorado Springs queer night club

- COP27, the UN's climate conference, this year in Egypt, and how they talk a big talk and then don't solve anything

- Four University of Idaho students were mysteriously stabbed to death

- Malaysia reaches a hung parliament for the first time ever

- Major stampede after Indonesian soccer match due to police using tear gas indiscriminately

- Major crowd crush in Seoul's Itaewon neighborhood on Halloween

- Ways to save your life in a human stampede and crowd crush situation

- Pubescent Sheldon, the new spinoff of CBS's hit sitcom Young Sheldon

- A caller gives some dubious advice on how to be a good ol' fashioned American hardass

All of that, and much much more, this is the Society Show!

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Contact the show at societyshowpodcast@gmail.com

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Nov 24, 202244:07
Ep 103: Remembering Twitter's First Greatest Villain

Ep 103: Remembering Twitter's First Greatest Villain

The Society Show with Christian Patterson is a podcast about society, featuring DJ Ski Doo and the Society Show Soundboard Band, with World Renowned Organist Roy Dickerson! It is now the new era of the Society Show - Season Seven, recorded live(-to-tape) at the beautiful Lorena Bobbitt Theatre in beautiful North Seattle. This episode includes:

- I got a PS5! PS5 games discussed: Astro's Playroom, Dirt 5, Disco Elysium, and Cyberpunk 2077

- Fun fact: A West German hockey team advertised Gaddafi's Green Book on their Jerseys in the 80s

- Elon Musk's hilariously terrible destruction of twitter, and flushing billions of dollars down the toilet

- Justine Sacco, the first, most majorly canceled woman on twitter, all the way back in 2013

- Rest in Peace Gallagher!

- My cover of "What a Wonderful World" by Sam Cooke

All of that, and much much more, this is the Society Show!

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Nov 17, 202242:24
Ep 102: India's richest man, US-Saudi divorce, Iran protests

Ep 102: India's richest man, US-Saudi divorce, Iran protests

The Society Show with Christian Patterson is a podcast about society, featuring DJ Ski Doo and the Society Show Soundboard Band, with World Renowned Organist Roy Dickerson! It is now the new era of the Society Show - Season Seven, recorded live(-to-tape) at the beautiful Lorena Bobbitt Theatre in beautiful North Seattle. This episode includes:

- Our unfortunately named intern Napoleon Hitler wants to make a statement

- How the word Nazi and Nacho have the same etymological origin

- The ongoing cheating controversy in chess, and the different approaches to cheating accusations between chess and sports

- The death of Mahsa Amini in Iranian morality police custody and the subsequent protests

- Kazakhstan's president renames the capital, Astana, the most name-changed city in the world

- The Colombian presidential election earlier this year

- The recent Brazilian and Filipino election

- Saudi Arabia's desired breakup with the US, and their recent threats to 9/11 the US again

- Denounced by Society Show: The new second richest man, Indian industrialist Gautam Adani

- The evolution of India's neoliberal economy, and its origin in a Sikh temple occupation, two assassinations, and a coup in Maldives

- Also added to the denunciation list: Jeff Bezos

All of that, and much much more, this is the Society Show!

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Nov 10, 202201:01:00
Ep 101: SECOND ERA Premiere / Alien metal sphere, sheriff gangs

Ep 101: SECOND ERA Premiere / Alien metal sphere, sheriff gangs

The Society Show with Christian Patterson is a podcast about society, featuring DJ Ski Doo and the Society Show Soundboard Band, with World Renowned Organist Roy Dickerson! It is now the new era of the Society Show - Season Seven, recorded live(-to-tape) at the beautiful Lorena Bobbitt Theatre in beautiful North Seattle. This episode includes:

- The episode beings with lots of fanfare, with our beloved host announcing his return, and introducing his tremendous staff

- Our gracious host Christian dispenses some great life advice that he gathered from his pilgrimage on hiatus

- Eminem does a great cover of his song Without Me to promote the Society Show

- The Summer of Root Beer concludes, and I rank the root beers in a tier list

- Ron Desantis and Greg Abbott's publicity stunt of sending migrants to Martha's Vineyard

- A bizarre metal alloy sphere fell from the sky in Veracruz Mexico, with Chinese writing on and potential an antenna

- The metal alloy sphere was removed from Mexico, and never reported on again

- The Queen of England died, Liz Truss's short PM tenure

- A British diplomat to Myanmar was detained by Burmese government

- The South Korean president calls the US Senate idiots

- Three members of LA City Council have a racist conversation leaked

- The LA County Sheriff's gang activity

- LA County Sheriff targeting their political enemies investigating them

- LA Metro "whistleblower" fabricated claims so her sheriff buddy's political rivals could be raided

All of that, and much much more, this is the Society Show!

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Nov 03, 202201:19:36
Ep 100: 100th Episode Extravaganza!

Ep 100: 100th Episode Extravaganza!

Wow! The 100th Episodes!

Highlights from the best moments, segments, and more from the show!

Jul 14, 202202:28:54
Ep 99: Imminent recession, set and setting, Game of Thrones

Ep 99: Imminent recession, set and setting, Game of Thrones

News and chat about society, with a soundboard and propaganda mixed in. It is now Society Show Season Six, in 2022: the Year of the Society Show, at the show's venue: the beautiful Lorena Bobbitt Theatre in beautiful Seattle Washington. It's the HD era! Some of the things covered include:

- The Society Show is evolving... it's not clear what it will look like for sure, but it will include a slightly less frequent podcast, and more youtube content

- The US - and to varying extents, the World - is suffering from a weak economy. It now seems likely it will drop further, at least have more volatility

- Palestine let's the US examine the bullet that killed journalist Shireen abu Akleh, despite us knowing that Israeli forces shot her

- A flashback to the Libyan Civil War, how it ended, and how it impacted the current protests against the Tobruk based government in East Libya

- The suspicious prime minister of Libya, and the illegitimate claimed prime minister in East Libya, leading to protests

- The new leader of Hong Kong discusses the future of Hong Kong relations with the rest of China

- The California legislator banned single use plastics (to some extent), does it go far enough?

- Big Olaf's Ice Cream in Florida is linked to listeria outbreak

- Father and two daughters starve to death in Renton, WA apartment, the father having them "fast" for strange religious purposes

- Smoking meth in your natural and cultural habitat, it's all about set and setting 

- My thoughts on Game of Thrones, especially how it ends

All of that, and much much more, this is the Society Show!

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Jul 07, 202247:01
Ep 98: Sentient AI?, True Crime discourse, Summer of Root Beer

Ep 98: Sentient AI?, True Crime discourse, Summer of Root Beer

News and chat about society, with a soundboard and propaganda mixed in. It is now Society Show Season Six, in 2022: the Year of the Society Show, at the show's venue: the beautiful Lorena Bobbitt Theatre in beautiful Seattle Washington. It's the HD era! Some of the things covered include:

- Society Show monologue! Was Abe Lincoln gay?

- Roe V Wade is overturned

- Cops can no longer be sued for not reading you your Miranda Rights

- Was Juul banned? Or wasn't it?

- The Summer of Root Beer!

- The attention seeking fedora neckbeard Google engineer who loves an AI bot

- True crime discourse, and how all sides miss the mark

- The cringey lyric of Meet Virginia by Train

- The Whack Shack - a new TikTok house inside an abandoned Chuck E Cheese

All of that, and much much more, this is the Society Show!

Visit the website: societyshow.net

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Jun 30, 202249:10
Ep 97: What is Illuminati, for real?

Ep 97: What is Illuminati, for real?

News and chat about society, with a soundboard and propaganda mixed in. It is now Society Show Season Six, in 2022: the Year of the Society Show, at the show's venue: the beautiful Lorena Bobbitt Theatre in beautiful Seattle Washington. It's the HD era! Some of the things covered include:

- Society Show presents MTV Cribs: Society Show Edition

- The Summer of Root Beer!

- My text conversation with a sex bot that randomly texted me

- Britney Spears's first husband, Jason Alexander, crashed her wedding

- A mysterious figure caught on camera at the Amarillo TX zoo

- Israel attacked the runway of Syria's Damascus airport, preventing any flights

- 31 members of fascist Patriot Front group arrested before attacking attendees of Pride Festival

- Sleeping Images, the app for looking at photos of people sleeping, to help you fall asleep

- The history of the real Bavarian Illuminati, and how it started

- Secret Societies in 18th century Germany

- How Illuminati conspiracy theories initially claimed Illuminati never went away, and orchestrated the French Revolution

- The reappearance of Illuminati theories in the 60s, and how it was portrayed in Adam Curtis's Can't Get You Out of My Head

All of that, and much much more, this is the Society Show!

Visit the website: societyshow.net

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Jun 16, 202253:22
Ep 96: Political Nomads / CIA-Cryptocurrency Connections

Ep 96: Political Nomads / CIA-Cryptocurrency Connections

News and chat about society, with a soundboard and propaganda mixed in. It is now Society Show Season Six, in 2022: the Year of the Society Show, at the show's venue: the beautiful Lorena Bobbitt Theatre in beautiful Seattle Washington. It's the HD era! Some of the things covered include:

- Our host, Christian Patterson, was briefly featured on G4TV's Attack of the Show!

- Misleading and untrue statements from the Uvalde police regarding the school shooting there

- SpongeBob SquarePants: Battle for Bikini Bottom – Rehydrated

- We need innovative run and jump games!

- Police in Tempe Arizona watch as a homeless black man drown, don't try to save him

- Political Nomadism: Orientalism that imposes nomadic-like characteristics to (sometimes historically) nomadic people

- The Ukrainian far right's "origin story" and how they perceive history to justify their ideology

- Some of the CIA's ties to cryptocurrency, and the anonymous founder of bitcoin

- The Glomar response of "Neither confirm nor deny", it's use by the CIA and its history as a response

- The newer CIA director disclosing that the CIA is, and has been, tied to cryptocurrency projects

- How Ukrainian crypto fans wanted to erect a digital statue of bitcoin founder Satoshi Nakamoto

- The fairly well-founded theories that the CIA created the deep web

- What exactly is unskilled labor?

- Capitalism's tendency to reduce labor into increasingly unskilled duties

- The conception of unskilled labor shifts between time and place, and is a consequence of the labor distribution

All of that, and much much more, this is the Society Show!

Visit the website: societyshow.net

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Jun 09, 202250:15
Ep 95: The Uvalde shooting timeline w/ Tom Cruise

Ep 95: The Uvalde shooting timeline w/ Tom Cruise

News and chat about society, with a soundboard and propaganda mixed in. It is now Society Show Season Six, in 2022: the Year of the Society Show, at the show's venue: the beautiful Lorena Bobbitt Theatre in beautiful Seattle Washington. It's the HD era! Some of the things covered include:

- Happy National Rotisserie Chicken Day!

- The Director of the IMF makes statements expressing fear of increasing food shortages, and geopolitical fragmentation

- The tendency to blame our economic problems on the Russian war in Ukraine, even though there's way more at play than that

- Are we sleepwalking into a multipolar world?

- The outbreaks of monkey pox!

- The discovery of a formerly unknown, ancient Maya city ruins underneath a construction site near Merida in Mexico

- A brief history of Maya history, and how Mayas lived in the central highlands during the Maya Classical Period

- The white supremacist Buffalo shooter's ties to a chat room with a "former" cop in Texas

- An interview with international superstar, famous actor, Tom Cruise!

- The Gripe Corner: Movie trailers don't give ANY details anymore, just give me some basic plot points!

- The timeline of the Uvalde shooting, the different/evolving stories, and the lies of the police

- All of the early warning signs of the Uvalde shooting

All of that, and much much more, this is the Society Show!

Visit the website: societyshow.net

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Jun 03, 202258:26
Ep 94: CIA Agent Noriega / the Trotskyite to Neocon Pipeline

Ep 94: CIA Agent Noriega / the Trotskyite to Neocon Pipeline

News and chat about society, with a soundboard and propaganda mixed in. It is now Society Show Season Six, in 2022: the Year of the Society Show, at the show's venue: the beautiful Lorena Bobbitt Theatre in beautiful Seattle Washington. It's the HD era! Some of the things covered include:

- Happy melon lover appreciation day!

- Let's start using less tomatoes and more melons

- Joe Biden approves the deployment of US troops to Somalia to supposedly counter al-Shabaab

- The deployment of troops were initiated the day after an election in Somalia, with a former Somalian president

- The shift of left-wing pundits to the right, when they erroneously claim the Republicans are less pro-war now

- Al-Shabaab's presence in Somalia, and how it parallels elements of ISIS in Syria

- The historical shift of western Trotskyites to become neoconservatives

- The expansionist element of Trotskyism that is shared with ideologies like Caesarism or Bonapartism

- People like Matt Taibbi and Glenn Greenwald's shift to the right, and how that resembles the Trotskyite to neocon pipeline

- The 2022 OPEC Conference, streaming live to social media from Austria!

- General Noriega, dictator of Panama and international drug trafficker, and CIA agent!

- The rise and fall of General Noriega in the eyes of the US

- How the warhawks in DC wanted to use Noriega as the fall guy when Iran-Contra was revealed

- Operation Acid Gambit, and the US intelligence extracting a CIA agent from Panama

- The parallels (on a small scale) between General Noriega and former Honduras president Juan Orlando Hernandez

All of that, and much much more, this is the Society Show!

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May 26, 202259:30
Ep 93: Ashley Schaeffer of Ashley Schaeffer's BMW w/ Andy Dick

Ep 93: Ashley Schaeffer of Ashley Schaeffer's BMW w/ Andy Dick

News and chat about society, with a soundboard and propaganda mixed in. It is now Society Show Season Six, in 2022: the Year of the Society Show, at the show's venue: the beautiful Lorena Bobbitt Theatre in beautiful Seattle Washington. It's the HD era! Some of the things covered include:

- Happy Ho Chi Minh Day, Malcolm X Day, and Asian and Pacific Islander HIV/AIDS Awareness Day

- Trying out new microphone tricks so my audio doesn't sound as hot

- Interviewing famous actor and comedian Andy Dick!

- The despicable racist shooting at a grocery store in Buffalo NY

- The easily refuted racist arguments that the shooter based his ideology off of

- The bleak future that seems on the horizon in the US

- Assassination of Palestinian journalist Shereen Abu Aqleh, and the disgusting beating of her pallbearers by Israeli police

- The nature of Israeli settlerism, and how they treat Palestinians in a similar way to the US and natives

- The conspiracy theory that Max Stirner did not exist, and he was a creation of Friedrich Engels

- A NYT opinion piece where an economist is surprised that car dealership owners are rich

- A doctorate economist is utterly shocked that rural and suburban small business owners are relatively rich

- Freakonomics, the neoliberal pop psych airport book

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May 19, 202251:25
Ep 92: Roe v Wade w/ Seth the Business Student

Ep 92: Roe v Wade w/ Seth the Business Student

News and chat about society, with a soundboard and propaganda mixed in. It is now Society Show Season Six, in 2022: the Year of the Society Show, at the show's venue: the beautiful Lorena Bobbitt Theatre in beautiful Seattle Washington. It's the HD era! Some of the things covered include:

- Some housekeeping about the state of the show

- Brief interview with Seth the Business Student, who teaches me the first rules of business

- The overturning of Roe v Wade

- How the overturning of Roe is a side-effect of the political structure and its decay

- Left-wing authoritarians like Julius Caesar, and his historiography

- How the US state enables the right when they can suppress the left, and an authoritarian takeover would be right-wing in nature in the US

- The concept of life and its metaphysical properties

- Explosion at a hotel in Cuba, and conspiracy theories about it

- Female prison guard in Alabama fled with fugitive, car was found abandoned, then committed suicide when caught

- The US military and state department's involvement in American media, particularly Call of Duty

- The Atlantic Council's ties to the CIA, and the gaming industry

- State of the State: the global shifting of different types of industries

- The capital shift from the US and Europe, to Japan, to South Korea, China, India, Mexico etc in the automotive industry

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May 12, 202253:39
Ep 91: Volcker shock, Nuclear Kitsap

Ep 91: Volcker shock, Nuclear Kitsap

News and chat about society, with a soundboard and propaganda mixed in. It is now Society Show Season Six, in 2022: the Year of the Society Show, at the show's venue: the beautiful Lorena Bobbitt Theatre in beautiful Seattle Washington. It's the HD era! Some of the things covered include:

- All of the many holidays celebrated on May 5th (besides Cinco de Mayo)

- Updates on last week's story about Elon Musk buying twitter

- The podcast is taking a long pause on talking about Elon Musk because people talk about him too much

- The absurd amount of nuclear weapons on the Kitsap Peninsula in Washington State

- Ban nuclear weapons!

- Movie reviews: Inherent Vice, Jackie Brown, Mulholland Drive, Scanners, Deep Water, The Power of the Dog

- The CIA operation Timber Sycamore

- Volcker Shock, how it caused / greatly contributed to neoliberalism in the US

- How Volcker Shock ties into other economic policies and changes around the world to make neoliberalism the global system

- Man who moves from [California, or Texas, or New York] moves to [Gentrified city], and complains about drivers on reddit

- Thanks for sponsoring the show Olay!

- Whose Society Show is it Anyway?

All of that, and much much more, this is the Society Show!

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May 05, 202247:33
Ep 90: Pop-Up Headlights, Gripe Corner, Western Sahara w/ Bunkerboy

Ep 90: Pop-Up Headlights, Gripe Corner, Western Sahara w/ Bunkerboy

News and chat about society, with a soundboard and propaganda mixed in. It is now Society Show Season Six, in 2022: the Year of the Society Show, at the show's venue: the beautiful Lorena Bobbitt Theatre in beautiful Seattle Washington. It's the HD era! Some of the things covered include:

- Happy Administrative Professionals Day! Top 5 belated gifts for the administrative professionals in your life

- Joe Biden was in South King County for Earth Day, but he does not govern like a South King County Boy

- Pop-up headlights are functionally banned by strict regulation - meanwhile new SUVs and trucks have massive six feet tall grills and terrible visibility

- Germany ended gas imports from Russia, rapidly scaling back oil imports

- In 2018, several North Korea "defectors" were actually functionally kidnapped by South Korea

- China establishes a new geopolitical relationship with the Solomon Islands

- Interview with repeat guest Bunkerboy, whose wife divorced him because of his last appearance on the show

- Doctor who was accused of murdering patients by overdosing fentanyl is acquitted

- The doctor's attorney was Jose Baez, well-known defense attorney for Casey Anthony, Aaron Hernandez, and Harvey Weinstein

- The drug dealer who supplied fentanyl laced drugs, leading to Mac Miller's overdose, sentenced to over 10 years

- Netflix loses customers for first time in ten years, I blame their mediocre and forgettable content

- The Gripe Corner: We need to get rid of Daylight Savings Time! Or Standard Time!

- Countries people forget exist: Western Sahara

- Jackass: Society Show Edition

- This episode is sponsored by Stanford University - thank you Stanford!

All of that, and much much more, this is the Society Show!

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Apr 28, 202245:18
Ep 89: Happy Diversify Your Portfolio Day!

Ep 89: Happy Diversify Your Portfolio Day!

News and chat about society, with a soundboard and propaganda mixed in. It is now Society Show Season Six, in 2022: the Year of the Society Show, at the show's venue: the beautiful Lorena Bobbitt Theatre in beautiful Seattle Washington. It's the HD era! Some of the things covered include:

- Happy diversify your portfolio day! Society Show Top Ten: Ways to Diversify Your Portfolio

- Diversify your portfolio day is actually on Saturday, but when it falls on a weekend, it's celebrated the Thursday before

- Reflecting on my trip to Los Angeles

- The difference between car and street infrastructure between Seattle and LA

- The general poor quality of infrastructure in the US and the little things that need drastic change

- The SEC claims authority to subpoena Elon Musk, after he was ordered to have all tweets screened by attorneys, then tweeted something dumb

- Elon Musk's attempts to take over twitter, more issues with the SEC, and twitter's poison pill to stop him

- Major protests in Sri Lanka against president and his prominent family

- Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan is ousted after attempt to consolidate power, he suggests the US was involved with his ouster, protests broke out

- Ammar al-Baluchi, who was used as a torture training prop by the CIA

- al-Baluchi's loose ties to al-Qaeda, and we don't know how much of his testimony was taken during torture

- The CIA's massive domestic surveillance program, and how little we know about it

- Cheaters: Society Show Edition

- Nissan commercial!

All of that, and much much more, this is the Society Show!

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Apr 21, 202251:01
Ep 88: Season Six - Grand Return of the Grandest Podcast!

Ep 88: Season Six - Grand Return of the Grandest Podcast!

News and chat about society, with a soundboard and propaganda mixed in. This is the Season 6 premiere, at the show's venue: the beautiful Lorena Bobbitt Theatre in beautiful Seattle Washington. It's the HD era! Some of the things covered include:

- A Society Show producer tracks Christian down to a meditation cult in California

- Christian is contractually obligated to lie to the audience and say he went to rehab, because that's more palatable for the rubes than a "mental breakdown"

- The extremely timely monologue about the Oscars (the only thing Christian was allowed to watch at the cult), a subject no one is tired about hearing

- Christian gets real about why he makes Society Show, and his creative past that led him to the show

- After claiming that he would literally eat a hat if Russia invades Ukraine, Christian literally eats a hat live on air

- The crimes of Russia invading Ukraine, and the nuance of the situation that mainstream media obscures

- The induction of Volodomyr Zelenskyy into the Liberal Head Canon mythology, and how you have to prescribe to this idealized version of him

- The disingenuous smears of the anti-war left in the US, including calling the anti-war left "imperialists"

- The neonazi issues in Ukraine, how they're overstated by Russian defenders, and how they're sometimes understated by neocons and warhawks

- The US and Saudi Arabia's 7+ year siege of Yemen

- Saudi Arabia and the UAE have killed over 10,000 Yemeni children with American weapons, and many more from the consequences of the blockade

- KTSS Channel 9 Local News: Far-right  Former Washington State Rep Matt Shea found with 62 Ukrainian children in Poland

- Matt Shea's dubious claim that the Ukrainian children are up for adoption, but states suspiciously fake-seeming adoption agencies connected to it

- Amazon Staten Island warehouse unionized!

- L'Oreal commercial

All of that, and much much more, this is the Society Show!

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Apr 14, 202255:51
Season 6 Trailer - Premiering April 14!

Season 6 Trailer - Premiering April 14!

Listen to the new Season of the Society Show, Season Six, premiering April 14th!

Apr 01, 202205:24
Ep 87: Low-Key, Laidback Season 5 Finale!

Ep 87: Low-Key, Laidback Season 5 Finale!

News and chat about society, with a soundboard and propaganda mixed in. On this episode, I was completely solo! This is the Season 5 finale, at the show's brand new venue: the beautiful Lorena Bobbitt Theatre. It's the HD era! Some of the things covered include:

- This is the season finale of the Society Show, and consequently, we will be taking a short (probably 1-2 month) hiatus between seasons

- During the show's hiatus, I will be working on other projects, catching up on uploading content, and coming up with great ideas for season 6!

- Left-wing president of Peru seems more corrupt than he is left-wing, cycling through numerous cabinets

- NATO politicians and journalists have been attempting to peer pressure Germany into getting involved with the Russia-Ukraine situation

- Rotterdam may dismantle a historic bridge to make way for Jeff Bezos's superyacht

- Bloomberg "accidentally" reported for 30 minutes that Russia invaded Ukraine

- The much-hyped "last" US drone strike supposedly targeting an ISIS member transporting a bomb... it was really a US aid worker carrying jugs of water

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Feb 10, 202233:27
Ep 86: Marxism - Leninism - Maoism - Prachanda Path - Costanzaism

Ep 86: Marxism - Leninism - Maoism - Prachanda Path - Costanzaism

News and chat about society, with a soundboard and propaganda mixed in. On this episode, I was completely solo! This is Season 5, at the show's brand new venue: the beautiful Lorena Bobbitt Theatre. It's the HD era! Some of the things covered include:

- All about presenting analysis from the MLM Prachanda Path Costanzaist perspective, the ideology of my new political party

- This episode is brought to you by the NSDAP's German Labour Front founded Volkswagen! Das Auto!

- Spotify and Joe Rogan: Why I support any musician boycotting Spotify for any reason

- Why criticism of Rogan is valid, but he's not a politically useful target

- The Left should continue to build viable infrastructure that can target bigger fish than Joe Rogan

- How covid misinformation and general medical quackery is heavily influenced our lack of a decent healthcare system

- A certain type of leftist youtuber who is really into bickering about strongly held opinions, and why that's destructive

- How high school debate works compared to youtube debate, to illustrate how unhelpful youtube debates are

- The freedom of the podcast space, having to answer much less to censors, than youtube does, and how podcasts tend to not have the "reality show" element of popular youtube channels

- Warhawks, neocons, and the US's involvement in the Russia-Ukraine conflict

- The American "left" that is dominant on youtube that encourages American imperialism

-  Culture is downstream from economics, contrary to the conservative "Politics is downstream of culture"

- What would an Ancient Egyptian think if they watched Seinfeld?

- How thinking of past systems, imagining future systems, and understanding the necessary conditions for those systems is important

All of that, and much much more, this is the Society Show!

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Feb 03, 202251:20
Ep 85: Weird Seattle, the Finders cult w/ Patthew

Ep 85: Weird Seattle, the Finders cult w/ Patthew

News and chat about society, with a soundboard and propaganda mixed in. On this episode, I was joined by three-time guest, Patthew (twitter: @patthew)! This is Season 5, at the show's brand new venue: the beautiful Lorena Bobbitt Theatre. It's the HD era! Some of the things covered include:

- Petition to change the Washington State flag

- A Seattle man contracted to get housing vouchers for a homeless camp, instead pressured women to shoot meth

- During the George Floyd protests, Seattle PD broadcasted fake radio messages about Proud Boys patrolling downtown and looking for a fight

- What happened at the George Floyd protests in Seattle, and how deeply police activity led to the creation of CHAZ / CHOP

- The Philadelphia George Floyd protests where cops led protesters onto the freeway, then kettled and teargassed them (I was there)

- Anarchic left-wing organization principles, and how they're so easily disrupted and coopted

- Negative 48, the numerology-based, QAnon-derivative cult, and their belief that JFK Jr is alive

- Michael Protzman, the leader of Negative 48, and how domestic violence, weird conspiracies, and potential mental illness play into Negative48

- Federal Way, WA, the suburb of Seattle Gary Ridgeway lived, also where Protzman lives

- What is a cult? And how does the traditional, academic definition fit in with the contemporary idea of a cult

- The Finders cult, investigated by Florida police after two men in suits had sex unkempt children in a van, and the conspiracy that the cult is a CIA front

- The McMartin Preschool trials, and the alleged connections to the Finders

- Metroid Dread, Breath of the Wild, Mario All-Stars, Star Wars Jedi: The Fall Order, Dark Souls 3

- Yellowjackets, Lost and Righteous Gemstones 

All of that, and much much more, this is the Society Show!

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Jan 27, 202201:28:13
Ep 84: America is falling apart at the seams w/ Randi

Ep 84: America is falling apart at the seams w/ Randi

News and chat about society, with a soundboard and propaganda mixed in. On this episode, I was joined by five-time guest, Randi (twitter: @wascaleywabbit)! This is Season 5, at the show's brand new venue: the beautiful Lorena Bobbitt Theatre. It's the HD era! Some of the things covered include:

- Immigrant experience of the rules of the American workforce

- The future gigification of the workforce

- The petition to change the Washington State flag

- Some of the cooler state and national flags

- What Sopranos was about

- Kanye West named as suspect in battery of fan wanting an autograph

- Kanye's new life phase, divorced dad, moving in next door

- Palestinian-American elderly man dies while detained by Israeli police

- DUI checkpoints and anxiety-inducing car-related things

- Florida republican bureaucrat killed after violently provoking road rage incident

- "America is falling apart at the seams", an op-ed by David Brooks that's aimlessly meanders about how the US is declining, but literally has no explanation

All of that, and much much more, this is the Society Show!

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Jan 20, 202201:21:42
Ep 83: 2022 the Year of the Society Show w/ ConnorTonight

Ep 83: 2022 the Year of the Society Show w/ ConnorTonight

News and chat about society, with a soundboard and propaganda mixed in. On this episode, I was joined by four-time guest, ConnorTonight (twitter: @connortonight)! This is Season 5, at the show's brand new venue: the beautiful Lorena Bobbitt Theatre. It's the HD era! Some of the things covered include:

- The massive Covid outbreak in the US

- How I think I had covid last week but I'm not sure because I tested negative

- Society Show quiz: X-Files Villain or real-life Cold War Era spy?

- Scully's unwarranted skepticism on X-Files after seeing so much

- The Society Show campaign to change the Washington State flag

- The Chicago Teachers Union voting not to go to live class, and the school district consequently cancelling all classes

- The protests in Kazakhstan, and the US reaction to it

- Will they be good? Scream (2022), Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2022), The Batman, the upcoming Super Mario movie

- Self-awareness in movies now vs then

- Robert Pattinson's film career

- Will they be good? Pokemon Legends: Arceus, Elden Ring, Gran Turismo 7, new Saints Row, Starfield

- Predicting the 2022 Midterms (not good for the democrats, of course)

- Celebrities who died recently (Betty White, Sidney Poitier)

- Predictions of celebrity deaths 2022: Jimmy Carter, William Daniels, Danny Devito, Chevy Chase, Queen Elizabeth (if she isn't dead already), and Jack Nicholson

All of that, and much much more, this is the Society Show!

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Jan 13, 202201:21:48
Ep 81: The Society Show Christmas Special! w/ John Carroll

Ep 81: The Society Show Christmas Special! w/ John Carroll

News and chat about society, with a soundboard and propaganda mixed in. On this episode, I was joined by third-time guest, John Carroll (twitter: @jhncrrll_)! This is Season 5, at the show's brand new venue: the beautiful Lorena Bobbitt Theatre. It's the HD era! Some of the things covered include:

- John Carroll is declared the official Holiday Correspondent for the Society Show

- The new Pokemon games, Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl

- It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, How to with John Wilson, and Sex and the City: And Just Like That...

- The New Spider-Man movie

- Schools across the US shut down over a vague and non-specific Tiktok school shooting threat video

- Mr Potato Head was the toy that started the idea of "Christmas Toy Crazes"

- The Tickle Me Elmo craze

- Playstation 2 and video games that trended around Christmas

- Pokemon as Christmas craze, juxtaposed with Furbies and Beanie Babies

- TV Christmas specials, and how their decline coincides with the decline of America

- Spongebob, Frasier, Simpsons, Pee Wee's Playhouse, Hey Arnold, Fairly Oddparents, The Office and more Christmas specials

- The sardonic-but-friendly-kinda-geeky nice guy trope of the mid-2000s

- The history of Christmas, and how it is less imposed on pagan holidays then you would think

- The holiday the Birthday of the Unconquered Sun, and how it was most likely created to elbow out Christmas

- Saturnalia, an ancient Roman holiday

All of that, and much much more, this is the Society Show!

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Dec 23, 202101:32:57
Ep 80: Metaverse, Tiktok 'memes', New Chronology w/ Turn on Your Monitor

Ep 80: Metaverse, Tiktok 'memes', New Chronology w/ Turn on Your Monitor

News and chat about society, with a soundboard and propaganda mixed in. On this episode, I was joined by four-time guest, Nick, and second-time guest Jess, the hosts of the Turn on Your Monitor podcast (twitter: @TurnOnYrMonitor)! This is Season 5, at the show's brand new venue: the beautiful Lorena Bobbitt Theatre. It's the HD era! Some of the things covered include:

- Happy National Word of Mouth About Your Favorite Podcast Day!

- The Society Show Quiz! 1v1 match-up of Nick and Jess - who wins?

- Hawaiian water source was contaminated with gasoline, poisoning several people, consumed by tens of thousands

- New York Times reported a virtual wedding in the Metaverse, yet this has been done online many times before, what's so special?

- Virtual weddings in World of Warcraft, Maple Story, over Zoom during Covid, and more

- The potential future of Metaverse, and why it seems so uncool

- The Tik tok couch guy, a man scrutinized for an extremely boring Tik tok video, and the societal implications of things like it

- Suspicious mortgage website Better.com gets almost a billion dollars, fires almost a thousand employees soon after

- Rohl's New Chronology, the idea that Ancient Egyptian history is off ~350 years, and corresponds with the Bible

- The Phantom Time Hypothesis, that the Pope and Holy Roman Emperor created several hundred years, so Otto II would be emperor in the year 1000 AD

- Fomenko's New Chronology, the idea that all history before about 1000 AD is highly suspect, and very likely forged

- Fomenko's theory involves a conspiracy between the Pope, the Holy Roman Emperor, and the "pro-German" Romanovs, against the Russian Horde

- Chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov's promotion of Fomenko's New Chronology, and why chess players can be political nuts

- The parallels between alternate chronologies and ancient aliens

All of that, and much much more, this is the Society Show!

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Dec 16, 202101:24:46
Ep 79: Supply chain, fearmongering about shoplifting, and X-Files w/ Izzy

Ep 79: Supply chain, fearmongering about shoplifting, and X-Files w/ Izzy

News and chat about society, with a soundboard and propaganda mixed in. On this episode, I was joined by third-time guest, my fiancee, Izzy (twitter: @badplantmom)! This is Season 5, at the show's brand new venue: the beautiful Lorena Bobbitt Theatre. It's the HD era! Some of the things covered include:

- After the Silk Road shut down, the US seized $1 billion in Bitcoin, which has now grown to $3 billion

- The US is now one of the biggest holders of Bitcoin, reflecting their invested interest in the currency

- The proliferation of Bitcoin as a force in the world, including becoming currency in El Salvador

- The supply chain shortages and what is causing it

- The Suez Crisis, where the UK lost their status as a world superpower following an intervention against Egypt

- Is Covid the US's Suez Crisis moment? And if not, does it feel like we are approaching one?

- How small businesses are beginning to hoard stock due to shortages, and the domino effect of economic effects post-Covid

- Black Friday, and how it is declining in popularity, and consumer shopping habits around the holidays have changed

- How Amazon was the only major company to report gains on Cyber Monday, and how Amazon is our future distribution overlords

- The major news surge about how much shoplifting there is in the US, and how it all started with one Target in San Francisco

- How a random use of a shoplifting reporting app from SFPD for one month sparked a fear mongering news surge

- The shifting to an automated but highly surveilled state with as few workers, and as much security, as possible

- X-Files, and how a show of this format, and being so critical of the US government, would never exist again

- X-File's villain, the Smoking Man, as a symbol of the Deep State, and the Conspiracy Graph that called the Deep State a far-gone anti-Semitic conspiracy theory

- How American media is increasingly infused with military and intelligence propaganda, and the Smith-Mundt Act Reauthorization of 2012

All of that, and much much more, this is the Society Show!

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Dec 09, 202151:16
Ep 78: Conspiracy Chart 2021, Slaughter in the South Plains of Texas

Ep 78: Conspiracy Chart 2021, Slaughter in the South Plains of Texas

News and chat about society, with a soundboard and propaganda mixed in. On this episode, I was completely solo! This is Season 5, at the show's brand new venue: the beautiful Lorena Bobbitt Theatre. It's the HD era! Some of the things covered include:

- It's December, which means it's the Christmas season!

- The world chess championship is currently occurring in Dubai

- The role of computers in post-Deep Blue chess, and how people use computers to play

- The Society Show monologue!

- Hundreds of packages found in a ravine in Alabama

- The Avenue of Sphinxes opened as an archaeological tourist site in Egypt

- American politicians go to Taiwan

- Forensic Files: the Society Show - a man killed by his ex-wife's boyfriend during custody exchange

- The terrible reputation of crooked judges in the US lately

- The everyday violence of custody disputes in the US, and the blasé attitude towards guns and gun violence

- A pregnant librarian ran a motorcyclist off the road, which ended in her gun death, after she fled the scene and was confronted

- The Conspiracy Chart 2021 - some of the things wrong with it, and at least one thing that's right about it

- The Nayirah Testimony, where the Kuwaiti ambassador's daughter falsely testified that the Saddam government was killing babies in incubators

- Hill + Knowlton, the corrupt American PR company that created the Nayirah Testimony

- Hill + Knowlton also worked for Big Tobacco in the 50s/60s, Big Asbestos in the 70s, the Church of Scientology in the 90s, and Big Fracking

- MLK was admittedly surveilled by the FBI, even though most people would assume that, and the fact that this is known distracts from bigger truths

- The vague concepts presented on the Conspiracy Chart, and how "We have questions" has a deliberate ambiguity

- Iran-Contra Affair actually happened, and Reagan knew about it, but it really doesn't change much if he knew or not

- The "Paul is Dead" tier of conspiracy theories

- The conspiracy theory that the US is a corporation, which is basically true, but for none of the reasons they think it's true

- Illuminati and the New World Order

- Whether or not the concept of the Deep State is anti-Semitic, and what a Deep State means

All of that, and much much more, this is the Society Show!

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Dec 02, 202153:27
Ep 77: Happy Thanksgiving from the Society Show!

Ep 77: Happy Thanksgiving from the Society Show!

News and chat about society, with a soundboard and propaganda mixed in. On this episode, I was completely solo! This is Season 5, at the show's brand new venue: the beautiful Lorena Bobbitt Theatre. It's the HD era! Some of the things covered include:

- A very Majority Report intro

- The successful farmer protests in India, and the 100s of protesters who were killed to ensure Modi's farm law didn't pass

- Keynesian economics vs neoliberal policies and how it pertains to India's laws and the protests

- Thousands of migrants from all over the world are crossing the Darien Gap

- The Pan America Highway, from north Alaska to south Argentina... except for the Darien Gap

- New Caledonia: a scheme by elites of the Scottish Kingdom to colonize the Darien Gap, which failed spectacularly

- Immigrants from the Middle East brutalized by Polish forces at border with Belarus

- The politicization and demonization of immigrants, and Belarus, as Belarus let's immigrants properly cross to their destination country

- NASA and Space X team up to launch satellite at asteroid

- The government is increasingly ceding their power to private corporations - Corporations are the government now!

- The frat bro president of El Salvador will make a Bitcoin City, powered by a volcano

- Kyle RIttenhouse and the implication on the future of the United States based on that court decision

- The anti-Catholic roots of Thanksgiving, and how that became established in the settler mythos

All of that, and much much more, this is the Society Show!

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Nov 25, 202143:09
Ep 76: Chevy Chase and the Steely Dans, and My Freaking Ex-Wife w/ Bunkerboy

Ep 76: Chevy Chase and the Steely Dans, and My Freaking Ex-Wife w/ Bunkerboy

News and chat about society, with a soundboard and propaganda mixed in. On this episode, I was completely solo! This is Season 5, at the show's brand new venue: the beautiful Lorena Bobbitt Theatre. It's the HD era! Some of the things covered include:

- On Earth-2, The Society Show features a wide array of interesting guests, including Chevy Chase and the Steely Dans

- COP26, Kyle Rittenhouse, scorpions in Egypt, and my FREAKING EX-WIFE!

- Movie reviews: Titane, Dune, They Came Together, House

- Waco University in Texas: the great, anti-cancel culture (online) college(/social media website)

- An interview with the Bunker Boy, the man who got married in a bunker that his parents built after the US invasion of Grenada

- Peter Thiel's interest in Rene Girard, and his theory of mimetic desire

- Peter Thiel's book The Diversity Myth, with David Sacks, who is also denounced by the Society Show

- How Peter Thiel, David Sacks, and obviously Elon Musk, are weird rich South African apartheid guys

- Thiel's ambition to use digital money to destabilize nation-states, and what he wants to replace it

- Thiel's rejection of the Enlightenment, and the political implications of that

- Following Astroworld, I look into other stampedes

- The stampede earlier this year at a religious pilgrimage site in Israel

- The stampede that occurred at the state funeral for Qassem Suleimani in Iran 2020

- The long (and recent) history of massively deadly stampedes at Mecca and Medina for Hajj

All of that, and much much more, this is the Society Show!

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Nov 18, 202159:06
Ep 75: Vegetable Oil in Diesel Engine Day w/ Becca

Ep 75: Vegetable Oil in Diesel Engine Day w/ Becca

News and chat about society, with a soundboard and propaganda mixed in. On this episode, I was joined by third-time guest, recruited from Twitter, Becca! (Not the other Becca, guest from last week's episode, also recruited from twitter). This is Season 5, at the show's brand new venue: the beautiful Lorena Bobbitt Theatre. It's the HD era! Some of the things covered include:

- Happy Vegetable Oil in Diesel Engine Day

- Vegetable oil is the only true renewable fuel for cars, and it was invented as a motor fuel in 1897!

- Rudolf Diesel, the inventor of diesel engines, and his cosmopolitan life

- Rudolf Diesel's mysterious death at sea

- A big fat naked Scottish man flashed Joe Biden's motorcade

- The tragic death of 8 people at the Astroworld concert in Houston

- What causes stampedes and how they could be prevented

- The FEC declared it legal for non-US citizens and foreign countries to financially support ballot measures

- Zillow buying up houses to flip, and it flops! They lay off 25% of their workforce and tried to unload the houses

- The logistics of government housing and how it could be expanded

- The Anglophone Crisis in Cameroon, the English-speaking separatist movement

- How English speaking Cameroonians are now allied with rebel factions in SE Nigeria

- What prevents rebel factions (like the Quebecois for example) from rebelling up here in the Northwest Hemisphere

All of that, and much much more, this is the Society Show!

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Nov 11, 202101:00:07
Ep 74: Covid vaccine, third party voting, Native American heritage month w/ Becca

Ep 74: Covid vaccine, third party voting, Native American heritage month w/ Becca

News and chat about society, with a soundboard and propaganda mixed in. On this episode, I was joined by first-time guest, recruited from Twitter, Becca! (Not the other Becca, recurring guest who was also recruited from twitter). This is Season 5, at the show's brand new venue: the beautiful Lorena Bobbitt Theatre. It's the HD era! Some of the things covered include:

- New York (the Big Apple), and apples in general, including how Delicious Red apples are unfairly maligned

- Native American heritage month

- The thriving indigenous culture, and tens of millions of Indigenous people who are overlooked and shoved to the margins

- The anti-Indigenous way that the US admitted territories as states into the union

- The Treaty (of Fort Laramie) that declared unused federal land reverts back to the Dakota and Lakota, a deal that has never been fulfilled

- Scientists claim they found a planet outside of the Milky Way, but could take decades to verify. Is this true, and does it matter?

- The Jeff Bezos rockets that (nearly) go to space, and if it's cool or lame that William Shatner did it

- How billionaires daftly pretend their helping when their existence obviously isn't helping most people

- The US and Iran bring up the Iran nuclear deal... again

- Taiwan confirms US troops are training on the island, ratcheting up US-China war tension

- China imposes a building height limit

- Antivaxxers threaten or aggress against 70%+ of schools in the UK, probably higher in the US

- The social conditions and history that led to the anti-vaccine movement

- The origins of the anti-vaxx movement, and its similarity to Halloween poisoned candy myths

- Religious exemptions for the covid vaccine and how they're kind of silly

- Third party voting and the futility of voting in general

- The Miliband-Poulantzas debate and the split between instrumental Marxism and structural Marxism

- How voting is the barebones of democracy, and isn't even necessarily democratic

All of that, and much much more, this is the Society Show!

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Nov 04, 202101:12:33
Ep 73: The Halloween Episode (Houdini) w/ John Carroll

Ep 73: The Halloween Episode (Houdini) w/ John Carroll

News and chat about society, with a soundboard and propaganda mixed in. On this episode, I was joined by two-time guest, John Carrol (@jhncrrl_) aka Pizza Boyfriend! It's the Halloween episode! This is Season 5, at the show's brand new venue: the beautiful Lorena Bobbitt Theatre. It's the HD era! Some of the things covered include:

- I've had several recent close with covid lately...

- A Society Show quiz: Rare disease, or fictional disease?

- King of the Hill, TMNT, Garfield, and more!

- Houdini's mysterious death on Halloween

- Houdini's resentment towards the supernatural, and occasional dabbling in it, often to expose medium techniques

- The fractured ankle ailing Houdini, which then compounded with several punches to the gut from a douche bag

- Houdini's dramatic collapse right as the curtain closed

- Detroit's coney island dog culture

- The physics of speed boat racing, and the people who will probably die trying to beat the record

- How exceptionally rare it is for an appendix to burst from blunt force

- Houdini's wife's attempts to communicate with him beyond the grave

- Horror movies! It Follows, Titane, The Evil Dead 1 and 2, Final Destination, Malignant, The Guest, It Comes at Night

- The "what lies beneath the suburbs" fear in slasher movies, vs the more disseminated, authoritarian fear of movies like Final Destination

- The social paranoia and isolation in the US and how that's reflected in horror movies

- Horror videos games, from Resident Evil, to Dead Space, Prey and more

All of that, and much much more, this is the Society Show!

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Oct 28, 202101:19:45
Ep 72: Guatemala Genocide, International disasters and chaos

Ep 72: Guatemala Genocide, International disasters and chaos

News and chat about society, with a soundboard and propaganda mixed in. On this episode, I was completely solo! This is Season 5, at the show's brand new venue: the beautiful Lorena Bobbitt Theatre. It's the HD era! Some of the things covered include:

- Danish Islam revert goes on spree in Norway with bow and arrows

- Large fire broke out in abandoned Taiwan flop house style building, killing dozens

- Protests in Beirut, and the murder of six protesters by sniper rifles

- The long lasting consequences of the Beirut explosion

- Israeli housing developments being constructed in West Bank and East Jerusalem

- British MP David Amess stabbed at a constituency meeting

 - Four Russian tourists discovered dead at an Albanian resort

- Conflict flares up between the Kosovo government and ethnically Serbian Kosovars

- Three movie reviews: No Time to Die, It (2017), and Hubie Halloween

- The Guatemala Genocide: the prolonged genocide and asymmetric civil war between military dictators and indigenous farmers

- CIA and United Fruit Company intervention in Guatemala

- The series of in-fighting, rigged elections, and coups in Guatemala

- Right wing death squads with full immunity to kill anyone the perceived to be an "insurgent" or "collaborator"

- Complete massacres of Maya villages because they could only be labeled as collaborators

- Many people abducted and "disappeared" in Guatemala City after curfew implemented

All of that, and much much more, this is the Society Show!

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Oct 21, 202154:12
Ep 71: CIA agents MIA, Yemen, Taiwan, and Vaush

Ep 71: CIA agents MIA, Yemen, Taiwan, and Vaush

News and chat about society, with a soundboard and propaganda mixed in. On this episode, I was completely solo! This is Season 5, at the show's brand new venue: the beautiful Lorena Bobbitt Theatre. It's the HD era! Some of the things covered include:

- A 100 year old Nazi guard is tried for crimes in Germany, at Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp

- An alleged Brazilian pedophile found to have millions of dollars worth of Nazi memorabilia

- An anti-Shia terrorist attack in Afghanistan

- A UN investigation into Yemen and the "Saudi intervention" in Yemen

- The US is training troops in Taiwan, provoking conflict with China

- The history and dynamics of China and Taiwan's territorial claims

- A future internet infrastructure crash, and how catastrophic it would be

- Multiple CIA agents are being captured and killed recently

- Commenting on Vaush's perceived problems with the left

- Black Hammer Org, the fringe, Jonestown-esque cultish group

- China: Socialist or not?

- How tankie is a really stupid word

All of that, and much much more, this is the Society Show!

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Oct 14, 202101:19:34
Ep 70: Tomato Hater Appreciation Day w/ Ben Laden

Ep 70: Tomato Hater Appreciation Day w/ Ben Laden

News and chat about society, with a soundboard and propaganda mixed in. On this episode, I was completely solo! This is Season 5, at the show's brand new venue: the beautiful Lorena Bobbitt Theatre. It's the HD era! Some of the things covered include:

- I visit the Oracle of Delphi and talk about my recurring nightmare of a sandwich shop

- The Society Show Monologue!

- It's Tomato Hater Appreciation Day! We appreciate people who don't eat tomatoes, a disrespected (potentially oppressed?) class in our society

- Steve Donziger, political prisoner in the US, for lawsuit against Chevron, representing indigenous Ecuadorians

- The Pandora Papers, and the questionable and vague coverage mainstream press

- A brief interview with Ben Laden, the show's unpaid intern

- Duterte announced he will retire from politics after his presidency is over

- Israeli settlers stoning a Palestinian ranching village

- Former Malawian lawmaker shoots himself dead in parliament building

- Georgia's ex-president arrested after returning home

- Qataris vote in country's first legislative elections

- Responding to and refuting a clip on "left-wing authoritarianism" from the All-In Podcast

All of that, and much much more, this is the Society Show!

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Oct 07, 202101:06:23
Ep 69: Election Watch (Filipino and German) w/ Georg

Ep 69: Election Watch (Filipino and German) w/ Georg

News and chat about society, with a soundboard and propaganda mixed in. On this episode, I was completely solo! This is Season 5, at the show's brand new venue: the beautiful Lorena Bobbitt Theatre. It's the HD era! Some of the things covered include:

- Be sure to follow the Society Show on twitch for the late night Society Streams!

- Follow-up on last week's alternative fuel source talk

- Vegetable oil in diesel engines: the only true renewable car fuel

- Some dope has been mistakenly having his groceries sent to my apartment every week

- The Society Show monologue

- The upcoming 2022 Philippines election

- The Manny Pacquiao and Rodrigo Duterte factions of the same political party

- The recent German election and the success of the Social Democratic Party

- An interview with German (Swabian) correspondent Georg Fugger

- The Haitian refugees at the US-Mexico Border

- How the state is structured to reinforce itself

- The US is looking to sell a contract for a detention center at Guantanamo Bay... where guards speak Haitian Creole

- Abu Zubaydah, the detained man at Guantanamo, and the parallels between Omelas in the Ursula K Le Guin

- AUKUS, the anti-Chinese alliance so the US and UK can give Australia nuclear submarines

All of that, and much much more, this is the Society Show!

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Sep 30, 202151:60
Ep 68: The Car Episode / Carlos Ghosn w/ Matt

Ep 68: The Car Episode / Carlos Ghosn w/ Matt

News and chat about society, with a soundboard and propaganda mixed in. On this episode, I was joined by two-time guest, Matt Burroughs of the blog tehben.com! Last episode, Matt joined me primarily to talk about NASCAR and motor sports. This time, we followed that trend with more general car talk. This is Season 5, at the show's brand new venue: the beautiful Lorena Bobbitt Theatre. It's the HD era! Some of the things covered include:

- Our history and relationship with cars and driving

- NASCAR driver Denny Hamlin and his kinky sex preference rumors

- The new car shortage, largely caused by semiconductors, and what semiconductors are

- The consequences of the new car shortage on the used car bubble

- Electric cars, hydrogen cars, and alternative fuel sources for cars in general

 - Electric cars and hydrogen cars as the racecars of the future

- Trucks are now almost the size of the tanks from World War 2

- The ebb and flow of big trucks and gas guzzler trends

- The trend of family cars, from station wagons, to SUVs, to crossovers

- Carlos Ghosn, the international fugitive and former president of Nissan

- Ghosn's childhood, which involved being very sickly for years, and his dad murdering a popstar-obsessed priest

- Ghosn taking over Nissan by way of French car company Renault

- Ghosn's business practices, including reducing production, especially in Japan, and shifting to commuter cars

- Japan's legal system, like 99% conviction rate, and you can be detained for 23 days without ever being charged

- Ghosn's alleged theft of millions, and his allegedly exploitative differed payment plan

- Ghosn's great escape from Japan, with the aid of Turks, with a plan from Americans, in a large audio equipment box

- How Ghosn lives in a house technically owned by Nissan, and it was damaged in the 2020 Beirut explosion

All of that, and much much more, this is the Society Show!

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Sep 23, 202101:12:18
Ep. 67: Google Fort Detrick w/ Patthew

Ep. 67: Google Fort Detrick w/ Patthew

News and chat about society, with a soundboard and propaganda mixed in. On this episode, I was joined by two-time guest, Patthew! This episode is all about Fort Detrick, and what it says about Society. This is Season 5, at the show's brand new venue: the beautiful Lorena Bobbitt Theatre. It's the HD era! Some of the things covered include:

- We start with water going down my wrong pipe, and a talk on weird, chronic dietary related issues we have

- How X-Files has a stand-in for Fort Detrick

- The mass pollution at Fort Detrick and the massive dumpsites of extremely hazardous waste

- Foot and Mouth Disease, tularemia, Q Fever and more exposed to the public

- Lyme Disease's strange symptoms and the confusing nature of it as a disease

- Lyme Disease's connection to Fort Terry

- The 2001 Anthrax attacks and who they targeted

- The Anthrax attacks connection to 9/11, and how they are and were perceived together

- Michael Hastings and Gary Webb, two journalists who died under mysterious circumstances

- The fall guy for the Anthrax attack

- The numerous cases of COVID that have been learned pre-December 2019, and outside of China

- The right-wing state department and think tank talking points on COVID that trickle down the media chain

- The theory that Covid leaked out of Fort Tedrick in Maryland

- The Military World Games in Wuhan that created a speculated super spreader event in October 2019

- The semiconductor and tech equipment shortages, and how it ties in with China

- The domination and increasing frequency of bubbles under a capitalist economy

All of that, and much much more, this is the Society Show!

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Sep 10, 202101:17:16
Ep 66: The Reality TV Episode w/ Izzy

Ep 66: The Reality TV Episode w/ Izzy

News and chat about society, with a soundboard and propaganda mixed in. On this episode, I was joined by two-time guest, my beautiful fiancee, Izzy! This episode is all about the biggest reality show hits, and what they say about Society. This is Season 5, at the show's brand new venue: the beautiful Lorena Bobbitt Theatre. It's the HD era! Some of the things covered include:

- The origins of reality tv in day-time talk shows like Jerry Springer

- The Real World and the documentary quality of early reality tv

- How shows like Laguna Beach and The Hills feel scripted but ad libbed like Curb Your Enthusiasm

- Survivor, and the guy I knew who was on Survivor: Millennials vs Gen X

- Fear Factor, American Idol, and the game show / reality show format

- America's Next Top Model and the way the show's taste in fashion changed over time

- The staged and scripted moments of reality tv

- Big Brother, and whether or not it's a "solved game", and the strategy has been confirmed

- The current dominant alliance called the Cookout, which is an all-black alliance

- The Joe Schmo Show's prescient but trashy parody of reality tv

- Jersey Shore, Real Housewives, Vanderpump Rules, and the reality/soap opera

- The future of potentially reality tv-like content on social media now

- Shows like Love Island and The Circle and the future of reality shows

All of that, and much much more, this is the Society Show!

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Sep 03, 202153:34