In Which We Reveal Our Ignorance

Donald Trump has already had two terms worth of scandals. Sam Tyndall and Stephen Bruckert talk about them with exhaustion and exasperation.

In this Podcast Extra, Sam Tyndall and Stephen Bruckert re-litigate the 2016 democratic primary and general election.We will never have or allude to this conversation ever again. It was extremely demoralizing and pointless.

Sam Tyndall and Stephen Bruckert talk about our meme moment and the return of performance group MemeFactory for one night only.

We talk airstrikes, fillibusters, and the four groups fighting for control over Trump's administration. Also video games!

Sam Tyndall called out, citing bad weather and ennui, but Stephen was determined to put out an episode today.So he put on a wireless microphone and went for a long walk and spoke from the heart and off the cuff about how he's struggling to live on a personal, intimate, internal level under this Republican administration.

Wythe Marschall joins us this week to talk about this outrageously news-packed week.

Sam Tyndall talks about his band Cloak, their upcoming release, and the philosophy behind the band. 

In this episode Sam Tyndall and Stephen Bruckert make a valiant (and successful!) attempt not to talk about the Trump administration.That's the good news.The bad news is that Stephen tells a 30 minute long story about how to watch netflix in 4k and explains why it's so fucking difficult and complicated.Also in this episode : Is the new Legend of Zelda worth $450? Find out!

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Megan O'Byrne comes back to talk about Milo's appearance on the Bill Maher show! We talk about his tactics and ideas.

Sam and Stephen talk about the news of the week, the utility of protesting Milo, and we explore in granular detail the level of violence acceptable against the new American nazis.

Sam Tyndall and Stephen Bruckert talk about whether or not Democrats should cooperate in nominating a new supreme court justice, Trump's idea of holocaust rememberance day, the muslim ban, and the bowling green massacre.

This week Stephen talks to two American muslims about the muslim ban Trump implemented on Friday.

Sam Tyndall and Stephen Bruckert try to avoid thinking to much about life in Trump's America, but then we do anyway because we're stupid and mean.

Dylan Thuras of Atlas Obscura calls in for another episode of Dylan & Sam Talk About AI.

Olivia Davis joins Sam Tyndall and Stephen Bruckert to talk about the newest Hearthstone expansion and what it's like being a woman in video games.And Stephen talks about what it was like to be a gamergater before there were gamergaters. 

Peter Marino, Executive Director of the Metropolitan Society for International Affairs, joins us this week to tell us all about Taiwan, China, and why Trump's phone call is a big deal and what it could mean.We also talk about Trump's weird conversation with the president of the Phillippines, who has instituted a weird permanent Purge (like in the movies).Bonus Westworld conversation at the end. Spoilers ahead!

Sam Tyndall and Stephen Bruckert talk about the death of the most important music library of our lifetimes, mechanical keyboards, Trump's conflicts of interest, and we learn how to correctly pronounce the somnabulence clause? The mumnabelence clause? The immolation clause? One of those. Of the US Constitution. 

Dylan Thuras joins Sam Tyndall and Stephen Bruckert to talk about the coming Trump presidency, why this Republican in the white house is so different from all the others in the past, and Trumps first 100 days in office.The sound quality of this one is not great. It will be better next time.

Sam Tyndall and Stephen Bruckert talk about why Hillary Clinton needs 271 electoral college votes to win the presidency this year.We also talk about the election in general. And why Sam is so confident that Clinton will win.