In Which We Reveal Our Ignorance

Sam Tyndall and Stephen Bruckert talk in the park this week about the Hearthstone world championships and the exhausting but nearly over presidential race.Also, Anthony Weiner and his stupid penis are back in the news.

Sam Tyndall and Stephen Bruckert talk exhaustedly about Donald Trump, the last president of the United States.

This week on the show Peter Marino, founder and executive director of the Metropolitan Society for International Affairs joins us to talk about the latest in the never-ending deluge of horrible Trump nonsense. We also pick his brain about the South China Sea, the TPP, and US foreign policy.The Metropolitan Society for International Affairs is holding their launch event this October 20th! You can RSVP at Eventbrite, search for Metropolitan Society or follow this link : https://www.eventbrite.com/e/launch-event-the-metropolitan-society-for-international-affairs-tickets-27609977185?aff=es2

Dylan Thuras returns to join Stephen Bruckert and Sam Tyndall for this episode!The most troubling thing about Donald Trump isn't his policy positions, proud ignorance, poor temper, or his long history of explicit bigotry. It's that he's got so much support among Americans.Even if Clinton wins in November and Trump more or less goes away for a while... what do we do about the 40% of Americans who support him?

Sam, Dylan, Stephen, and Kaarin check in after the first Trump-Clinton presidential debate.

Sam Tyndall triumphantly returns to the podcast to discuss the latest murders committed by police, protesters and pragmatism, and Hillary Clinton.

Vee joins the show today to answer with Stephen some of the 36 questions that are supposed to lead to greater intimacy.We don't talk about politics! No politics this episode. We are tired of Trump and Clinton.

Stephen Bruckert and David Wajsfelner talk about their memories of September 11, 2001 and everything that has happened since. Also, because there's no reference to it in google, I want to add in the show notes that we reminisce about Kathleen, the author of The Damage Girl blog, one of our favorites from all the way back in the late 90s.The entire show is recorded from skype, which is why the quality isn't so great.

We take a big detour away from politics this week as Olivia Davis joins Sam Tyndall to talk about everything that's going on in Hearthstone lately.

Sam and Stephen sit down to talk about Donald Trump's crash landing, No Man's Sky, and the ISIS hiring process.

The delightful Kastoory Kazi joins Stephen and Sam this week to talk about purity in American politics, Hillary Clinton's now seemingly-inevitable presidency, Donald Trump, and Jill Stein's plan to defeat ISIS.

Sam Tyndall and Stephen Bruckert talk about the DNC and Hillary Clinton's candidacy, and Megan O'Byrne joins the show to talk about soul cycle and her surprising pick for president. 

The RNC was a terrifying shitshow.And then Trump's numbers went way up!Listen as we talk about it.Eric Grundhauser joins us!

Sam Tyndall is overwhelmed by exercise and I'm overwhelmed by Turkey so we bring you a previously recorded interview with our close friends Paul and Lauren about their life in India and their new life with a baby girl.

In a week that brought police killings of two black men on video as well as the killings of five Dallas police officers by a sniper and more deranged commentary on all of it than anyone could ever hope to read in a lifetime, Sam, Dylan, and Stephen myopically focus on the only thing that really matters : the Pokemon Go server status. 

Stephen Bruckert and Sam Tyndall talk about the philosophy of Bernie voters confronted with a hard choice, Donald Trump's chances at winning the general election, Brexit and the fate of the western worker, and the future of driverless cars after the first driverless fatality.

Stephen is off in Maine this weekend, so this is a special episode previously recorded by Dylan and Sam.  

Sam Tyndall and Stephen Bruckert talk about social media, gun control, terrorism, Donald Trump, modern campaigning, and the emerging story of a horrifying police conspiracy in Oakland, California. 

Illustrator Nancy Ahn joins Sam Tyndall and Stephen Bruckert to talk about the music and abbreviated career of Good English, the Brock Turner rape case, Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, the 2016 election, running and weight loss, and our one-man suicide wishlists.

In this episode, PhD candidate and cultural anthropologist Wythe Marschall joins Stephen Bruckert to talk about the future of food. They try and attempt to not talk about the election. RIP Muhammad Ali. #GOAT