Phil and Kyle watch "Doug" Season 1, Episode 10 "Doug Directs"
In this Unsociablist Watchalong, Phil and Kyle revisit an old favourite of the two's childhoods: Doug. An empathetic child making his way through junior high with an eclectic cast of fellow students whose troubles tend toward the silly.
Kyle's brain is well melted; Phil attempts to gather the goo into a bucket.
Phil and Kyle talk about the distorting effects of mediated reality, a society of individuals creating their own versions of the world, and the self absorption of those enmeshed in our Spectacle. Kyle has been reading; it's a terrible habit. Don't do it kids.
Kyle and Phil revisit Genndy Tartarovsky's classic robot-killing samurai cartoon, Samurai Jack.
One of the seminal features of the Saturday morning cartoon lineup, Samurai Jack was and remains one of the coolest kid's shows to ever exist. Look, I'm old now, but this show is still neat.
Kyle and Phil hash out the American Service Members Protection Act and some related American crimes.
A romp through the memory-holed times following 9/11 and the American war machine on auto-pilot. The American Service Members Protection Act is a direct refutation of the UN's institution of the International Criminal Court.
The Balts go to work during the most important election of their lives, so far...
When we spell Family, we spell it with a Capital "F."
Welcome to the inaugural, full-sized pilot episode of Capital F. The plucky Balt family will continue to weather through some of the worst and most ideologically baffled times in
Kyle and Phil review Bo Burnham's "Inside" and maybe cry a little.
Welcome to the Internet! Phil and Kyle are having a look around. Today we review the stand-out "standup" special from music man Bo Burnham. Confronting once again the question, does culture mean anything?
Phil and Kyle return to where it all began: the plague.
who is outside my window yelling "WE ARE BACK TO NORMAL"? show yourself. coward. i will never be normal.
We revisit the through-line that has connected this podcast from its humble beginnings
Kyle and Phil watch the ninth episode of one of the all-time best animated television shows: Cowboy Bebop.
Session Nine: Jamming With Edward. Click play at 7:10 to watch along!
Cowboy Bebop, a magnificently animated show about bounty hunters and their tangles with love, death, despair, humor, and the unknowable.
Phil and Kyle take a look at the system of "surplus" value, unions, and workplace life.
What happens when union participation is at a near historic low? Precarit-ization and neofeudal constructs are asserting themselves more forcefully in the First World economy. While these relations have always existed at the periphery of capitalist empire and in the
Phil and Kyle watch Season 3, Episode 2 of "Community"
Phil and Kyle watch the hit NBC primetime show Community. A sitcom set in the weirdest community college one can find west of the Mississippi. Season 3, Episode 2 "Geography of Global Conflict" takes the gang to an overly-competitive Model UN -off.