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What a Hell of a Way to Die

Sep 30, 2021

This week, Nate and Francis discuss a recent Politico article about anti-vaxxers and covid deniers partying hard at the Lake of the Ozarks resort in southern Missouri. It’s an article from July, but we’d wanted to discuss this for a while for one specific reason: Francis’s whole family is from southern Missouri,...


Sep 23, 2021

This week, Nate and Francis speak with friend of the show and investigative reporter Ken Klippenstein about the various things he’s got going on: reporting on DHS, reporting on labor law violations, and reporting on people in the military deciding to refuse one specific vaccine--it’s a great time.

Ken’s got a new...


Sep 16, 2021

Nate and Francis return to have a DadChat in which we discuss the facts: we’re getting older, we can’t post as hard anymore, and we just don’t want to be mad online. But we’re embracing it, and we have hope for those of you worried about the inevitable march of time: you stop caring about dumb things. Hope you...


Sep 9, 2021

This week, Nate speaks with Hussein Kesvani, a notable serious journalist and cohost of Trashfuture and 10,000 Posts podcasts, about a recent phenomenon in Britain: the decision to evacuate a bunch of dogs and cats from Afghanistan while leaving behind all the Afghan staff from the charity involved. We also touch on...


Sep 2, 2021

This week, Nate speaks with Alice Caldwell-Kelly (@AliceAvizandum) from the podcasts Trashfuture, Well There's Your Problem, and Kill James Bond, about the 2009 Armando Ianucci film IN THE LOOP, in which the British TV series 'The Thick of It' visits the topic of the Iraq War and James Gandolfini plays a grumpy American...