Dems in disarray! Advisors and Biden supporters are freaking out after his terrible performance in last week's debate with Trump.Calls for Biden to step down from Democrat insiders who three weeks ago were saying all the clips of him confused and flubbing were all cheap MAGA fakes.Support us on Patreon to listen to this episode and get extra premiu…

Hawk Tuah girl brings back blow jobs, Chiquita Banana hired a death squad in Colombia and Israel is targeting state governments with their anti-Semitism PR.We talked a few weeks ago about Israel’s incredibly sophisticated lobbying machine in Washington.Just a couple of days ago, an LA synagogue hosted a sale for stolen Palestinian land. The protest…

The two least popular candidates in history are days away from their first on stage showdown, and one of them is terrified of sharks.And in France, shit is wild in the lead up to replacing their entire national assembly.Support us on Patreon to listen to this episode and get extra premium only episodes for $5 a month.patreon.com/wetwiredMusic:Airgl…

Section 230 is not a special privilege for big tech, it enables third party participation in communication that even big tech, with its deep pockets, wouldn't risk liability to host, let alone smaller platforms, which couldn't afford one lawsuit.Section 230 also doesn't encourage platforms to have no community guidelines, with a wild west of social…

The question I had going into this episode was about the asymmetrical reactions between the pro-Palestinian protesters and the pro-Israel and Zionist protesters. (Those seem to be subtly distinct groups so I’m trying to think of them as separate but related.)Support us on Patreon to listen to this episode and get extra premium only episodes for $5 …

We’re talking about the kids. A lot of people have ideas about the kids.And some people think that we should be having a whole lot of them.Support Wetwired by subscribing on Patreon for $5 a month, get extra episodes every month, and access to all of our past subscriber only episodes. patreon.com/wetwiredSome reading:https://aeon.co/essays/why-long…

We're teaming up with Bradley Plaisier and Robert Skvarla to talk about the show that 30 years ago introduced the normies to alien abductions, secret government programs, and global conspiracies. Somehow, the X-Files was exactly the right show for its time. It harnessed the untapped cynicism and suspicion of the 1990s and assured us that there real…

Someone is radicalizing our kids. Who is behind this? What are their motives? There appears to be an unidentified individual or an entire group of them who are actively working to radicalize our precious, vulnerable students. This is a serious issue that requires immediate investigation and action to protect our youth and ensure their safety.Or it …

We're talking far-right extremism with Teddy Wilson. Teddy is an investigative journalist based in Texas. He covers extremism in the US and abroad.Teddy gives us an overview of extremism in the US, how J6 rioters are being portrayed as political prisoners, and a preview of his upcoming projects.Support us on Patreon: patreon.com/wetwiredFind Teddy …

We’re talking about Max Azzarello, who on April 19th set himself on fire outside the Manhattan Criminal Court where jury selection was concluding for Trump’s Stormy Daniels/hush money trial.In the final post on his Substack titled "I have set myself on fire outside the Trump Trial," Max Azzarello explained that “[t]his extreme act of protest is to …

Sean here with historian Thomas Lecaque to talk about everything wrong with Alex Garland's incoherent movie Civil War. Jesse Plemons is NOT one of those things.Support us on Patreon: https://patreon.com/wetwiredThomas on Twitter:https://twitter.com/tlecaqueSean's review of Civil War on Letterboxd:https://letterboxd.com/sondes/film/civil-war-2024/Mu…

Maybe a crack in the up until now unquestioned US support of Israel's genocidal campaign in Gaza. All it took was the deaths of 7 people connected to a celebrity chef. Israel murdering 30,000 civilians didn't do it.Israel has somehow managed to be the top recipient of US foreign aid for the last few decades. It was only bumped from the number one s…

Maybe a crack in the up until now unquestioned US support of Israel's genocidal campaign in Gaza. All it took was the deaths of 7 people connected to a celebrity chef. Israel murdering 30,000 civilians didn't do it.Israel has somehow managed to be the top recipient of US foreign aid for the last few decades. It was only bumped from the number one s…

The drugs, parties, hip-hop, sex workers, P Diddy episode.Following the raid on his homes by Homeland Security as part of a sex trafficking investigation, we're talking about P Diddy and the recent lawsuit alleging that he and Cuba Gooding Jr. sexually abused at least one producer who worked for him. And that he shot somebody.Support us on Patreon:…

Up until now, for different reasons, we've avoided talking about both Israel and AI. We haven't talked about the ongoing Palestinian genocide because there are much better voices to listen to than us to help you understand the extent of the horror in Gaza. We haven't talked about the AI bubble because arguing with marketers and hypemen is boring.Th…

Bitboy, once a top crypto influencer, has further defiled himself. We're talking about his recent "karate fight" in Mexico. We get into some of his career highlights and give some background on his challenger, shit coin creator, More Light.We also have a run down of the speakers at CPAC 2024. We learn how Florida Rep Byron Donalds feels about wind …

For our special Wetwired Valentine's Day episode, we’re talking about that special feeling you get in the deep, dark recesses of your sinful heart. In a holiday orchestrated by Big Chocolate, there are plenty of other opportunists looking to cash in on your loneliness or your crumbling relationship.An old southern pastor has ideas about how you sho…

Christ’s cryptocurrency is on trial in Colorado. Eli and Kaitlyn Regalado have been accused of creating a worthless crypto coin and exchange, with Jesus-themed branding, that took about 3.4 million dollars from “investors” and left them holding the bag.With a hearing scheduled in Colorado for Feb 5, instead of showing up, Regalado decided to hit th…

DeSantis’ CRT and DEI presidential campaign might be over, but there are still plenty of people willing to throw down dollars to fight against DEI and woke capitalism.We’re talking about the brave elites who’re willing to put their money down for a good cause. And in the truest American way any of us know, that cause is based land speculation.Some …

Today we’re asking the question, "what if a zany mismatched group of three liberal Gen-Xers, one Millennial and two Zoomers were thrown into a house reno’d by Chip and Joanna Gaines just as the world was ending?"We’re going to peek into the blue pilled minds who can’t help but wonder if maybe all those MAGA, QAnon conspiracists might be on to somet…

We hope you all made it through the holidays intact! We're launching into 2024 with the promised part 2 of our conversation with Karl Mamer from the Conspiracy Skeptic podcast.There's plenty about Douglas MacArthur, deadbeat sovereign citizen dads, and the Grifeter Queen herself, Romana Didulo.Find Karl on Mastodonmas.to/@skepticsbookoflists@c.imBu…

In the hallowed tradition of Anna Sorokin and former US representative George Santos, and all the other people claiming to be something they’re not, there’s a thriving class of people claiming to have royal blood.Like the guy from Colorado who claimed to be the King of England, or the other guy from Maryland who claims to be King of the Isle of Man…

A few weeks ago a paper was published in the journal Archaeological Prospection that the Gunung Padang site in Indonesia is not, as is generally believed, around 2 thousand years old. And that it is actually closer to 20,000 years old.For $5 a month, you can help support the show and listen to our full premium episodes. You'll also get access to al…

We’re joined again today by Darren Drda!We talked last time about his most recent book, New Age Wasteland. We spent some time with a few ghosts and ghouls operating in the New Age space and then dug into the Woo to Q pipeline.Today we’ll spend some time on a few of the more recent influencers in the New Age movement. We also want to shed some light…

Happy Halloween everybody! For a special treat, we're watching one of the absolute worst films ever made, the 2020 cinematic abortion, Trump vs the Illuminati.For $5 a month, you can help support the show and listen to our full premium episodes. You'll also get access to all of our past subscriber only episodes, which is pretty cool.https://www.pat…

We're taking a break this week, so we thought we'd re-release a timeless episode from the archives. This one is about the amorphous dimensions of what we call QAnon, some thoughts about why it's so hard to categorize, and the implications for detecting disinformation.------We’ve been trying to figure out how many people actually buy into QAnon idea…

We’re talking with filmmaker Christopher Bell about his docuseries Miss Me Yet. Chris brings the horror and absurdity of the George W. Bush years back to life as he tells the story of a political heir who becomes president, is branded a liar and war criminal by many, and finally drifts into the semi-reclusive painterly life. Miss Me Yet is currentl…

We're joined again by the lovely Thomas Lecaque, historian, educator, author, and destroyer of pop culture. Our winding conversation comes together around the core of ahistory that both fuels and is created by political grifters who would willingly do a fascism so long as they can make a few bucks.We talked a bit about the myth of Christopher Colum…

The Romeikes, a white, evangelical Christian family who fled Germany to the US seeking the religious freedom to homeschool their seven children. Now DHS is deporting them, and conservatives all of a sudden love asylum seekers—at least the right kind.Next we catch up on what's happening with Tim Ballard, ousted CEO of Operation Underground Railroad,…

We take a look at the crimes of Senator Bob Menendez and his wife, Nadine. Next, we talk about White nationalists crashing city council meetings with racist rants. We wrap things up with a review of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas' longstanding membership in the Bohemian Club and the chummy photo he took at Bohemian Grove with billionaire lib…

This is our final installment for this round of conversations with Bradley Plaisier. Wherein we wrap up our coverage of UFO disclosures. Bradley then does his damnedest to Bigfoot pill us before exposing us to the glorious works of Chuck Tingle.Argue with Bradley about Bigfoot on Twitter:https://twitter.com/bpleasiesFor $5 a month, listen to the re…

Bradley Plaisier is back to finish our conversation about the history of UFO disclosure. Along the way, we get into the catastrophic fallout from the global war on terror, the Ebola hoax at Burning Man, modern government UFO investigations, and having the right sort of disillusionment.Find Bradley on Twitter:https://twitter.com/bpleasiesMusic:Five …

We're talking with artist, author, musician, and former cult member Darrin Drda. Darrin came by to tell us about his book New Age Wasteland: A Look Inside at the Dark Side of "Woo".We talk about the commodification of spirituality, the value of direct knowledge, that capitialism is the conspiracy, and how all this fits into what Darrin calls the "T…

Kurt Schiller, the founder and editor-in-chief of Blood Knife magazine, joins us to talk about remaking the internet so it's fit for humans again.Subscribe to Blood Knifehttps://www.patreon.com/bloodknifeFollow Kurt and Blood Knifehttps://twitter.com/mechanicalkurthttps://twitter.com/BloodKnifeMagIf you liked this episode, consider supporting us on…

DeSantis' Keystone Kampaign hits another snag with the unintentional dump of sensitive campaign memos. Down south, Argentina sees the rise of another goofy populist. Javier Milei, economist, television personality, dog spiritualist, and neo-Tantric sex guru came in first in their August 13 Presidential primary.For $5 a month, listen to the rest of …

We’re continuing our recent coverage of UFO disclosures and the UFO disclosure movement. We’ll be talking some more about a few of the players in the recent US House hearing on UFOs. But, to put all that in context, we’ll look back into the history of UFO disclosures. And that history is wild. What we find is a wilderness of secret government progr…

This is a sample of a premium episode. To listen to the entire episode and hear our other premium only content, subscribe at patreon.com/wetwired.DeSantis’ campaign is getting to the tire fire stage. After raising around $20 million when he launched his campaign, now his big donors are leaving. Now he's fired a third of his staff in a move that his…

UFOs everybody! People are seeing them, the Deep State is hiding them, and a small bunch of patriots are tying to blow the whistle. A couple of weeks ago on July 26, the House Subcommittee on National Security, the Border, and Foreign Affairs held a hearing to get to the bottom of all this. Some reading:https://apnews.com/article/ufos-uaps-congress…

This is a sample of a premium episode. To listen to the entire episode and hear our other premium only content, subscribe at patreon.com/wetwired.We’re joined by Brent Lee, co-host of the Some Dare Call It Conspiracy podcast, to talk about how he fell down the conspiracy theory rabbit hole and how he got back out. Along the way we talk about Pizzag…

Easily the worst movie ever to perform so well in the box office, Sound of Freedom is a fantastical retelling of the extra-governmental exploits of Tim Ballard. Ballard, taking to heart the conviction that every problem can be solved with a gun, travels to Columbia, to set up his own Epstein island as a sting operation to catch pedophiles. Along th…

This is a sample of a premium episode. To listen to the entire episode and hear our other premium only content, subscribe at patreon.com/wetwired.In this episode, we’re joined by Daniella Mestyanek Young, the author of Uncultured. She was born a third generation member of an influential family, within The Family International, better known as the C…

We’re joined by journalist Devin Thomas O’Shea. Devin has been published in The Nation, Slate, Jacobin, and Lapham’s Quarterly—among quite a few others.We talk about some St. Louis lore, the 1877 Railroad Strike, the short-lived workers' revolution, and the local gentry's revenge after the strike was put down. We wrap things up with a run past some…

We're joined by Kacey, host of the Cult Vault Podcast. In about an hour and a half we managed to cover the troubled teen industry, Incels, Christian Science, Jordan Peterson, and even a little bit about Lumeria. Follow Kacey and the Cult Vault podcast:https://twitter.com/CultVaultPodhttps://www.youtube.com/@CultVaultPod Music in this episode: Lex V…

This episode is dedicated to all of you out there who’ve once moved into a new neighborhood and thought it might be a good idea to meet and talk to your neighbors online instead of in person. What could go wrong, right? With trying to have a parasocial relationship with people who live down the street? This is where Nextdoor comes in. Music: Airglo…

The big news for everyone is that the deep state is striking back! Last Friday, on June 9, the Department of Justice revealed details about the 38 felony counts against Trump. Jack Smith, the special prosecutor for the DOJ, is accusing Trump of blowing off or outright lying to the FBI, ignoring DOJ subpoenas requesting the return of classified and …

Today we’re talking about Josh Hawley’s latest book Manhood: The Masculine Virtues America Needs. The fist pumping MAGA Senator from Missouri has joined the manosphere book club. He is now in the crisis-of-manhood genre among Jordan Peterson’s Twelve Rules for Life, Jack Donovan’s The Way of Men, and Robert Bly’s Iron John. Hawley occupies a niche …

Mike Flynn, the retired Lieutenant General, former National Security Advisor, and the original digital soldier, has made it back into the news. We’re hearing from him again for a few different reasons. First, he’s suing the government and seeking $50 million—for wrongful prosecution. Flynn hit the news again just a week later. During a live event f…

Tucker Carlson is looking for work, and he might soon be busking on a corner of Twitter. Once he commanded the most watched show on cable-TV. He used his enormous platform to broadcast little known neo-Nazi and white supremacist ideas—repackaged in an advertiser-friendly format. As much as Tucker’s on-air cheerleading for Trump helped him rise to t…

The law of attraction permeates the world of self-help and spirituality. In this magical world, everything you think you know about the causal nature of reality is wrong. All that you experience, all that you have and are, is a consequence of the vibrations that you attract. You don’t have to explain the mechanism or prove the results, because it’s…

For this episode, we’re commemorating the peaceful transfer of completely ceremonial and ineffectual power. That’s right, in the grandest tradition of Britannia, going all the way back to Arthur himself, the UK has found itself a new king. A new royal figurehead has pulled the sword from the stone, donned the power bracelets, and will now sit on th…