“I refuse to "look up." Optimism nauseates me. It is perverse. Since man's fall, his proper position in the universe has been one of misery."
Episodes
Saturday Mar 21, 2020
Saturday Mar 07, 2020
Saturday Mar 07, 2020
Hey Bleakers. We run through the basics of Super Tuesday: what happened, why, fuck, why, all that. Also got a little discussion on the closure of the Australian Associated Press, plus some mindless diversions about Dr Hook and the Welsh Herring Guy.
Take it easy.
Thursday Feb 27, 2020
Thursday Feb 27, 2020
Hey everybody, it's Darcy's Grab Bag! A series of small treats and tidbits from the warm pouch of Melbourne's favourite son. We got a Dutton bite, a Weinstein bite, a Cashless Welfare Card Bite, a Transport Union fracas bite, and I think maybe another small morsel in the bottom of the bag.
In the second half of the show we talk about the Nevada caucus results and the monstrous personage currently using the name Mike Bloomberg.
Lots of fucking sleep deprivation and fuzzy brains and low mumbly voices in this one, listener. That's how we do it!
Sunday Feb 16, 2020
Sunday Feb 16, 2020
Moron alert: listening to this during editing made it crystal clear how little we can be trusted with basic arithmetic involving simple rounded numbers. Almost every claim involving simple addition, subtraction or multiplication is an error - see if you can spot them all!
After a very brief touch on the NH primary and Darcy's experience protesting in the stupid opulence of the Crown lobby, we look into the scandal surrounding Bridget McKenzie and the allocation of sport club grants - the most boring dogshit in the world, right? Wrong. It's a tale of twists and turns and this is the level at which the average Aussie is interested in politics so god damn it anyway.
Then we read the findings of a news dot com dot au survey which suggest that, among news dot com dot au readers anyway, there is a deep paucity of self-awareness re: wealth and doing it tough, and perhaps a general lack of wisdom and worldliness, possibly connected causally to their decision to read news dot com dot au and maybe, although we couldn't possibly comment, that causal link has something to do with news dot com dot au being fucking dumb and its readers are dumb for reading it and reading it has made them more dumb.
Saturday Feb 08, 2020
Saturday Feb 08, 2020
It's a big look at the absolute disaster that was the Iowa Caucus, the opening moves in the intolerable chess game that constitutes the Democratic Primary in the US. Wanted to gloss over this one but unfortunately it's like a John Le Carre novel if it were written by John Kennedy Toole.
Friday Jan 24, 2020
Friday Jan 24, 2020
New Year Same Old Us. What we've done here, essentially, dear Bleakers, is accidentally record two episodes instead of one. Our opening "wee chat" constitutes the first episode, where we talk about the US Democrat Party primaries again (I promise, only another interminable several months of this shit) and about the Witcher TV show.
For the "actual" episode, starting about an hour in, we get emotionally distraught talking about the bushfire crisis and then wind things back with a look at the profoundly stupid Rolling Stone article about Russian "trolls".
All the best, take it easy.
Tuesday Dec 24, 2019
Tuesday Dec 24, 2019
Ay bleakers, sorry we been away. As penance we've put together this interminable 2.5 hour Christmas/Hannukah/Holiday Season special episode to tide you over. It's not, like, Christmas themed or anything, it's just happening at Christmas. Basically we just take a bit of a gander at what's going on in Australia, the UK and the US.
Plus a few little extras like a terrible conversation about our high schools and a game that Darcy's designed to foster peace between the warring generations.
Friday Nov 01, 2019
Friday Nov 01, 2019
Was gonna do a "Terror Tory" double pun but tbh Labor are fully culpable too in today's topic from Darcy: The Northern Territory "Intervention".
Plus, listen to a sleepy Kieran give a run-down on FBI profile-em-up "Mindhunter".
Happy bleaking.
Thursday Oct 24, 2019
Thursday Oct 24, 2019
We've streamlined our format! After a bumbling start of outstanding business and two new peerless and definitely funny characters Kieran's cooked up we dig into the preposterous shit going on with Julian Assange at the moment and then have a semi-directionless rumination on horror movies. Even our episode descriptions are getting more concise.
Tuesday Oct 15, 2019
Tuesday Oct 15, 2019
We have an exclusive, unique thing that no other podcast or media outlet of any sort is offering: Two white dudes talking about Joker. We also talk about the huge child forfeiture crisis happening due to NDIS delays as well, just to cut dumb with harrowing.
In stories, we have Babymarch, Epsteinkin Park, The Incredible Climate Moron and a MUSK UPDATE.