What a Hell of a Way to Die

This week, Nate speaks with Brian (), Josh (), and A.J. () from The Worst of All Possible Worlds (), a podcast by ex-evangelicals that documents case studies in the pop culture of a dying empire. We’re talking how evangelical Christianity views the...

  Nate and Francis discuss the true story of Captain Tom Moore, the World War II veteran who enchanted Britain by walking around his garden to raise money for the state-funded healthcare service that shouldn’t need to receive charitable...

This week, Nate speaks with Sam Asumadu of Media Diversified () about her recent piece on the UK’s war in Yemen–that is, the ways in which the UK arms industry’s relationship with Saudi Arabia means that arms sales continue no matter what. We...

DadChat ends at 16:30! This week, Nate and Francis discuss a recent headline about the New Mexico National Guard being called out to serve as substitute teachers due to covid. It turns out it’s a state employee volunteer scheme, but in the course of...

Dadchat ends at 17:02! Nate and Francis discuss the strange phenomenon of the Floridian 20-year-old twins named the ‘Island Boys’ who are receiving Cameo requests to make military-specific greetings–to include requesting that the Marine Corps...

This week, Francis speaks with writer Jonathan M. Katz () about his new book “Gangsters of Capitalism: Smedley Butler, the Marines, and the Making and Breaking of America's Empire.” We learn about Butler’s participation in the Spanish-American...

This week, Francis speaks with Task and Purpose reporter Haley Britzky about the water pollution crisis at Joint Base Pearl Harbor in Hawai’i, the ways in which the Navy effectively told its service members and dependents to pound sand, and how the...

DadChat ends at 15:45! This week, Nate and Francis discuss recent news that a group of Navy SEALs have filed an injunction to get religious exemptions from the DOD’s vaccine mandate (which we argue is funny and also a very bad thing to entertain)....

This is an unlocked bonus from earlier this year--we'll return with a new episode next week. Joe and Shocks join Francis to discuss historical instances of draft dodging that involve fleeing into the woods of Alaska, fleeing to Germany, and much more....

CONTENT WARNING: Nate discusses having witnessed a situation involving a lot of severe child neglect, which some listeners might find distressing. This segment runs from 9:10 to 15:02. This week, it’s a holiday-themed DadChat in which Nate and...