What a Hell of a Way to Die

May 28, 2020

This week, Nate and Francis discuss a recent story that reveals the culprit beyond former Nissan CEO Carlos Ghosn’s escape from the Japanese court system: he paid a former Green Beret and extremely Boston cop-seeming guy to smuggle him out in a case. It turns out this patriotic human trafficker has his own incredible...

May 21, 2020

We started out this episode with the intention of talking about a recent story in which someone tried to catfish a civilian by pretending to be a senior general in the U.S. Army. But then we went down the rabbit hole of trying to reconcile they ways in which the military is portrayed versus how we experienced it, and we...

May 14, 2020

No matter how much bleach you drink or inject, you may suffer permanent lung damage if you contract covid-19. But don’t ask us -- ask the US military, who have decided that a positive covid-19 test may be ground to bar enlistment.

May 7, 2020

This week, Francis and Nate react to an incredible, incredible article in the AP about the gang of morons who tried to do unconventional warfare in Venezuela and wound up getting arrested. It’s such an unbelievable story that we had to read it, line by line. The original article is here: