The Atlantic quiz column is back, and you can guess how well the boys do at figuring out which is gibberish and which is also gibberish but fake.  Before that, we cover a variety of odd and troubling topics and assertions, from whether eating roadkill is vegetarian, the best way to mishandle COVID, how unemployment is good for the economy, and why violence is really the fault of its victims.

Should we provoke World War 3?  Is Elon Musk a cool guy?  Are NFTs worth anything after all?  Are the rich really happy? Do Covid vaccines give you AIDS?  If you're not getting the answers to these hard hitting questions, you're not listening hard enough.

This one is really chockablock with catch-phrases and wild takes, such as 'Get your Ape slurped', 'Based Lib Jordan Peterson' and the new phenomenon of Wall Street being a 'Gambling Parlor'.  In case the madness has you at full tilt, we get to hear from our old friend former president Obama, which I know you were all waiting for.  Returning to the menagerie of grotesques, we cover some reactionary propaganda of the more literal variety in the form of Republican crank calls and college professor white supremacist rhetoric that you really have to hear to believe.

How do we deal with a superpower led by a war criminal?  How can we save authoritarianism's bad name?  How can we blame homeless people for when the NYPD run them over in vans?  How can we survive the humiliation of another Atlantic 3 truths and a lie quiz?  Tune in to find out the answers to these totally important questions.

In this one we cover a couple of pop media lauded heroes of 2022, Adam Tooze and Sam Bankman-Fried. We manage to be simultaneously less enthusiastic and more respectful of their characters than the bipolar puff/hit pieces covering them.

We watch and analyze/review Bong Joon Ho's mega-hit black comedy Parasite. Subtopics range from class struggle to social dynamics within families, and eventually incudes a deeper discussion of income and wealth inequality in both South Korea and the wider world.

For an episode that was recorded several months ago, the news is much the same. Russia marauding in Ukraine. CEOs giving horrible life advice. The far right using American institutions to restrict abortion access. You know the drill. We do include a record setting catfish story, so not all constants are worrying.