This week, we're analyzing the specifically online aspects of the recent Venezuela mercenary debacle. We're joined by Riley Quinn and Alice Caldwell-Kelly of Trashfuture, Nate's other podcast, who provide insight into the specific types of psychos...
2020-05-11 01:08:40 +0000 UTC View PostThis week, Nate and Francis are talking how to handle small children's tempers, the metaphysics of the True Midwest, and so much more. Hope you enjoy our periodic script-free DadChat episodes, because we love recording them!
2020-05-03 23:02:00 +0000 UTC View PostThis week, Francis speaks with journalist Jasper Craven (@jasper_craven) on the topic of VA care during the COVID-19 outbreak, the ways in which the Trump administration is ...
2020-04-26 23:01:59 +0000 UTC View PostWe've recently had a lot of Navy talk, so we figured it would make sense to bring someone on who could discuss boats. Rich Madrid (@richjmadrid) is a leftist Navy vet who took...
2020-04-19 23:01:02 +0000 UTC View PostNate and Francis assembled another episode of DadChat. This episode includes discussions of power tools, plans for home improvement projects, what sorts of food to grill, and so much more.
The jerk chicken recipe that Nate mentions can be fo...
2020-04-13 00:46:52 +0000 UTC View PostThis week's bonus episode features an interview between Nate and Ben Natan (@thebennatan). Ben's an actor based in New York City, and he's involved with left-wing Jewish activism in the US, a politics he came to after growing up Jewish with one Is...
2020-04-06 23:01:02 +0000 UTC View PostThis week, Francis speaks with Jared and Elizabeth Kilmer from Game to Grow, an organization that uses tabletop gaming in therapy. Specifically, they discuss how they've seen tabletop...
2020-03-29 23:01:59 +0000 UTC View PostFrancis and Carey Shockey (@shocks) review the 2012 film BATTLESHIP because, well, someone has to provide insight into its portrayal of the military, and Carey at least has experie...
2020-03-23 00:02:00 +0000 UTC View PostWe've talked a lot about national service, the draft, and things of that nature (sometimes in the context of whichever politician has brought them up in an undefined way). But this week, we're talking to an actual Americorps veteran -- friend of t...
2020-03-16 15:33:53 +0000 UTC View PostWe recorded this week's DadChat the day after Super Tuesday. Who even knows what's going to happen next in American politics. What we do discuss is: centrist volton, coping strategies, Biden's dementia, and how we both attempt to unplug from time ...
2020-03-09 00:02:01 +0000 UTC View PostAs you may have heard, Francis' dad was trained to operated the Davy Crockett nuclear recoilless rifle, and this instigated a lifetime of curiosity about nuclear weapons and their modern roles. So, we've brought on anthropology PhD student Martin ...
2020-03-02 00:02:05 +0000 UTC View PostAs a follow-up to last week's episode, Nate speaks with certified Zoomer Kevin F. about what it's like deploying to Afghanistan with a permanently-connected smartphone. Kevin recently returned from a 9-month deployment and has a lot to say about h...
2020-02-24 00:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostWhat happens when the Matrix takes place in 1984 and Brave New World? What happens when jacked as hell Christian Bale is asked to be emotive? Francis and Nate answer these questions in their review of the 2002 sci-fi gun samurai film EQUILIBRIUM. ...
2020-02-17 00:01:01 +0000 UTC View PostThis week, Nate speaks with author and journalist Hussein Kesvani (@hkesvani) on the topic of the Prevent program -- a government anti-radicalization effort in the UK that has ex...
2020-02-10 16:23:09 +0000 UTC View PostLook, it was bound to happen. We were supposed to review a movie (we're getting to that soon!) and we completely messed up our timing. But, we devoted an hour of dadchat to the following topics: is it really a good idea for a communist future with...
2020-02-03 00:02:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Francis discusses a book about propaganda and explains why propaganda isn't that bad. Or is it? Honestly working out the details ourselves
You've asked your questions, and we're here to answer them. What sorts of red flags let you know that someone is the Rick and Morty fan of veterans? What MOS would you pick if you could do it all again? What are your favorite nonfiction books? Hea...
2020-01-20 12:22:08 +0000 UTC View PostThis week, Francis speaks with Isiah James (@isiah4congress), an Army infantry veteran running as a democratic socialist in the Democratic primary for New York's 9th Congre...
2020-01-13 14:24:30 +0000 UTC View PostWe saw the Matrix when we were teenagers, and we haven't addressed this film because, at first glance, it's not really a standard war movie. However, given the prevalence of chuds using the expression 'redpill,' we decided that we needed to explor...
2020-01-06 00:01:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Francis watches a video about the odd weapon prototypes of Ghana, from drone cars to gundams that don't move, we discuss just why Ghana isn't going to become a world power with the Kantanka Corporation
2019-12-30 15:55:26 +0000 UTC View PostThis week's bonus features Francis and Brock in discussion of yet another classic video game. Brock loves BioShock Infinite, and he and Francis discuss its strangely libertarian themes, its unintentional forward progress of representing diverse ch...
2019-12-23 00:02:01 +0000 UTC View PostThis week's bonus features Francis in discussion with investigative reporter Alex Kotch. They discuss the current Democratic primary: why Warren and Sanders don't take PAC money, Pete Buttigieg's background as a consultant, the sources of money th...
2019-12-16 13:59:08 +0000 UTC View PostOur favorite congressman has done it. He's leaving government because he got caught vaping and gaming too much. In order to understand the legal ramifications of the case, we've brought on friend of the show Carey Shockey (2019-12-10 15:21:17 +0000 UTC View Post
Francis ordered a Combat Application Tourniquet and a first aid kit on Wish and goes through them, discussing what he does and doesn't like about them
2019-12-01 22:51:12 +0000 UTC View PostThis week's bonus features Francis speaking with Jasper Craven, a journalist who covers military and veteran issues, about a recent piece he wrote for The Baffler about how the military has conducted drug dosing experiments on service members. The...
2019-11-25 00:02:01 +0000 UTC View PostIt's the three-year anniversary of this podcast and we recorded it the day after Veterans Day. Nate and Francis set out to do a full DadChat episode but instead talked about the civilian-military divide, the weirdness of pitting veterans against p...
2019-11-18 18:29:54 +0000 UTC View PostThis week, Nate and Francis discuss the entirety of the Rambo series. Why has it gotten less plot-driven and more fixated on violence? Is the entire series fascist? Why are post-9/11 action movies so grim and centered on the worst depictions of ho...
2019-11-11 18:13:06 +0000 UTC View Post
For the bonus this week, Francis shows off some of his hydroponic growing, the differences between the different systems, and what you need to get started yourself
2019-11-04 15:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post(Apologies for the delayed release — Nate got a little too pastoral back in Indiana and didn't make his deadline). This week's bonus features Francis in discussion with longtime friend of the show Brock Wilbur on the topic of the 2004 video game...
2019-10-28 22:41:34 +0000 UTC View PostThis week, Nate speaks with Marine veteran and anti-war activist John Motter (@JohnMotter) about organizing in Los Angeles, how he went from infantry grunt to leftism, the peri...
2019-10-20 23:01:59 +0000 UTC View Post