Lucy, Theo, Andrew, and Ben bring you: A mystery package from Florida, heading towards a billion dead birds, and a duck walks into a bar.
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EPISODE 316: A Hard Zero Of Dead Birds

Bonus Episodes

Dracula University undergrads Jimmy Treats (Branson), Dunmer (Andrew), Hal O’Ween (Charles), and Frank N. Steinsmonster (Cameron Fetter) tell spooky stories around a campfire. E1 on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/e1podcast

305 - Campfire Stories to Scare Your Socks Off Spooky SZN Pumpkin Spice Vibes

Stamp Grosby was the first player/coach/owner/GM in basketball. How did this former powder magnate end up being the shortest-term owner in NBA history? Slut Phillips (Branson), Kevin Hatleaf (Andrew), and Slim Dragoon (Joel) explain. E1 on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/e1podcast

317 - Smoked: The Rise and Fall of Stamp Grosby

If you don't want to hear us rant and rave about the Hofenstaufen dynasty, Frederick II, and how Prince Andrew of Hungary was the Hunter Biden of the middle ages, then fast forward to about minute 17. 

This week our old pal Kate Wagner (@mcmansionhell) joins us to discuss the pope, AI-generated content, conspiracy theory-fueled wildfires, the ecstasy we apparently felt at electing Joe Biden, and the latest designs at Neom. 

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And us too: www.patreon.com/trillbillyworkersparty

Episode 326: The Failson Crusade (w/ special guest Kate Wagner)

"Make sense of the day’s news and ideas," urges The Morning, a daily New York Times newsletter. "Get smarter, faster on news and information that matters to you," Axios assures its readership. "This is how the news should sound," The New York Times again declares, via its podcast The Daily.

Over the last ten years, roughly speaking, we’ve seen the proliferation of the daily digest-style newsletter and podcast at legacy and new media organizations. Inspired, at least loosely, by the so-called explanatory journalism of Vox and similar outlets that arose in the mid-2010s, publications now commonly offer bite-sized breakdowns of the news that allegedly matters most, delivered to the inboxes of upwardly mobile, dinner-party-hosting, perennially on-the-go professionals - or at least those who want to think of themselves as such.

There’s certainly nothing wrong with accessibility in news media—quite the opposite, in fact. But, for corporate “explanatory” news models, it’s worth asking who makes the decisions about which news is the “most important,” and about how that news is framed. How do seemingly benign, even folksy promises to “make sense of the news” mask the ideology of corporate media institutions? And what are the dangers of herding audiences into a center-right political consensus that issues complaints like “campus speech is vexing” and “the left is less welcoming than the right”?

On this episode, we examine the rise and hegemony of centrist micro-news platforms–from Axios’s trademarked "Smart Brevity" to The New York Times’ David Leonhardt’s newsletter The Morning and The Daily podcast–looking at how they package left-punching, pathologically incurious, glib news nuggets served up to busy, upwardly mobile, well-meaning liberals.

Our guest is writer Jacob Bacharach.

Episode 195: David Leonhardt and the Elite Consensus Manufacturing Machine

Writer and comedian James Colley joins us to talk about: An unintentional Swedish dog turd cannon, illegally disarming your teen, having meat middleman in your AI romance, and a stinky, stinky hole.
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EPISODE 333: French Tuck Dick Print Landslide (with James Colley)

Branson and Andrew discuss being sick. E1 on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/e1podcast

321 - The SickCast

A discussion of the prestige TV show Secret’s Service featuring three super fans: Carl Yummy (Branson), Walton Sears (Andrew), and Filbert Fletcher (Charles). E1 on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/e1podcast

322 - Secret’s Service: Speaking Secrets

Google's gone to shit, Huma Abedin is dating George Soros' son, Brandon is going Dark and Epstein is out on steam. We take a jaunt through our really cool world with guest Ed Zitron, tech reporter and host of the Better Offline podcast.

Subscribe for $5 a month to get access to all our premium QAA episodes + mini-series like Manclan, Trickle Down, Perverts and The Spectral Voyager: https://www.patreon.com/QAA

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Music by Pontus Berghe. Editing by Corey Klotz.

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Episode 268: Why Google Sucks Now feat Ed Zitron

Singer-songwriter Brewer Grouse finds himself at the center of the early '60s folk boom in Manhattan and sets out to make his message heard—whether people like it or not.

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Starring Charles Austin, Dave Weigel, Lisa Vitale, Nate Ruess, Alex Branson, Andrew Hudson, John Semley, Alana Branson, Joel, Margie, Taylor, and Patches.

Written by Charles Austin, Alex Branson, and Andrew Hudson

Songs by Charles Austin, performed by Charles Austin, Lisa Vitale, Nate Ruess, and Alex Branson.

Artwork by Titas Antanas Vilkaitis

Edited by Charles Austin

327 - The Ballad of Brewer Grouse

Though the “chemtrails” conspiracy theory has long been dismissed by scientists, aviation experts, and other skeptics, the Tennessee legislature has taken it very seriously. On April 11th, Tennessee Governor Bill Lee signed into law SB2691, which bans the ‘intentional injection, release, or dispersion’ of chemicals within Tennessee ‘with the express purpose of affecting temperature, weather, or the intensity of the sunlight.” Though the law doesn’t explicitly use the word chemtrails, it was inspired by chemtrail conspiracy theorists. 

On this episode we talk to independent journalist Teddy Wilson of Radical Reports about the anti-chemtrails bills in Tennessee and other state legislatures. 

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REFERENCES

Radical Reports: Why Are GOP State Lawmakers Introducing Bills Based on Claims by Fringe Conspiracy Theorists?
https://www.radicalreports.org/p/why-are-gop-state-lawmakers-introducing

Some Dare Call It Conspiracy: Chemtrails On Trial
https://www.spreaker.com/episode/chemtrails-on-trial-part-1-8--58112535

To what extent do you believe in the conspiracy theory that the government is using chemicals to control the population (chemtrails)?
https://www.statista.com/statistics/959559/conspiracy-belief-government-control-population-chemtrails/

MIT Technology Review Solar geoengineering could start soon if it starts small
https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/02/05/1087587/solar-geoengineering-could-start-soon-if-it-starts-small/

Aircraft clouds: From chemtrail pseudoscience to the science of contrails
Mètode Science Studies Journal, vol. 8, pp. 181-187, 2018
Universitat de València
https://www.redalyc.org/journal/5117/511766757028/html/

Terrell, Steven. Santa  Fe New Mexican. Assignment led journalist/activist into "chemtrail" obsession, 1999
https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-santa-fe-new-mexican-chemtrails-1999/133314562/

Anti-Chemtrails Laws feat. Teddy Wilson (E275)

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327 - The Ballad of Brewer Grouse

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