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This week, Andy & Brendan evaluate the nature & impact of the richest man in the world, from their very different vantage points. Can they ask about the villainy of everyone's favorite autistic centibillionaire without descending in gross ad hominem? Can they bounce from spaceX rockets red glare to starling satellites twinkling in air, giving proof through the night that a Tesla was still there on our block? Without descending into rancorous escapism, seeking out a blue sky to hide from the x-cruciating atmosphere down here on earth?YES THEY CAN!
Wednesday Nov 06, 2024
Wednesday Nov 06, 2024
Yesterday was the final day of voting in the 2024 election. Today, two friends whose candidates (they didn't vote the same and still love each other! Gasp!) lost early this morning get together to ask the question "Are We Doomed?" and do their best to muster up some evidence we AREN'T... and some that we are. From a surrender in Gaza to apologies for lockdowns, from 9 year old political pundits to 80 year old presidents, from progressive to Christian conservative and back again... it's all on this weeks' TOTALLY CLASSIC!
Wednesday Oct 23, 2024
Wednesday Oct 23, 2024
This week, Andy & Brendan discuss whether the modern news media landscape is a trustworthy map of reality or not. From McDonald's fries to Washington Post's lies, from correcting your parents to deceiving yourself, from AI Trump to real life trust issues, it's all in this episode of Totally Classic!
Wednesday Oct 02, 2024
Wednesday Oct 02, 2024
This week, Andy & Brendan meet back up after a month to explore the literature, the arguments strong & shoddy and the strange manipulations around climate change! From unmodelable clouds to model google usage, from adhd Brittanica forays to conspiratorial arrays, from the ground to the atmosphere and back again... all on this weeks' Totally Classic!Every episode of Totally Classic is a conversation between friends about subjects that have, reportedly, ended friendships. We aim to show how phenomenally unnecessary interpersonal hostility is to talking about even the thorniest of issues!
Wednesday Aug 28, 2024
Wednesday Aug 28, 2024
This week, Andy & Brendan tackle a subject they are both admitted novices in: Climate Change. They do their best to parse out not only their apprehension of the landscape of theory but seek to posit a means of validating or invalidating those apprehensions, from the place of admitted ignorance. What arguments are convincing, what arguments are weak, who is and isn't trustworthy as a source... and how do we proceed from here?
In one months' time, they'll reconvene and discuss their deeper assessment! What do YOU think?
Wednesday Aug 14, 2024
Wednesday Aug 14, 2024
This week, Andy & Brendan interrogate a popular supposition about the United States' purported two-party system. Does any party "deserve" you vote? Is voting for a third party candidate "stealing" from some other candidate with a larger bankroll? What arguments are tenable that a third party candidate is a "spoiler campaign" for a more likely victor? Is Voting like sports betting or is it an ethical obligation wherein one selects the best candidate possible (regardless of "odds")?What do YOU think?
Wednesday Jul 31, 2024
Wednesday Jul 31, 2024
This week, Andy & Brendan wrestle with a question about elections, in part spurred by the sudden new Democrat nominee for President. Should a citizen vote for a candidate based on what identity categories that candidate falls under? It is hypocrisy? Machiavellian? One last gasp of error to right the past? A chance to be part of representational history?Or is it just positive-spin racism or sexism? Let's talk about it!
Wednesday Jul 17, 2024
Wednesday Jul 17, 2024
This week, Andy & Brendan stroll down media memory mayhem lane, remembering and analyzing a trio of Media Hoaxes they've fallen for and why.
What fears did they prey upon? What biases did they tickle? What do they tell us about our media and ourselves? What Media Hoaxes have YOU fallen for?
Wednesday Jul 03, 2024
Wednesday Jul 03, 2024
This week, the conversation goes a bit below the belt.
This episode is relatively uncut, but the two conversants are.
Puns misbegotten aside, this episode Andy & Brendan wrangle with the seeming lack of forethought put into removing foreskin. Is this mild form of genital mutilation cultural appropriation, a patriarchal ritual meant to humble the future man or provoke him to violence or something else entirely?
Wednesday Jun 19, 2024
Wednesday Jun 19, 2024
In just 4 short years, it's become more of an assumption than even a belief that author JK Rowling, who altered the literary landscape for more than a decade in the 90s & 2000s, is "transphobic." But is this assumption accurate or inaccurate?Andy & Brendan try to sleuth, feel and reason it out!
What do YOU think?
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