The first and only podcast bringing you weekly case studies in the pop culture of a dying empire. Every Wednesday, co-hosts Josh, Brian, and A.J. dissect an artifact of popular culture, breaking down how its narrative choices reflect or subvert the reactionary political project. From video games to movies to theater to an apparently infinite supply of evangelical Christian radio drama, we expose the machinations of the worst of all possible worlds in order to figure out how to build a better ...
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The main theme of this show is to teach the Holy Bible, the English language, History, and Social Justice.
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Brian Alford and Victor Salazar discuss all things video games, adding great insight and entertainment! Hosted on www.metallman.com
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Welcome to Press Start! I'm Brian Daniels and this is the place to get the most honest video game reviews around. Hope you enjoy!
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On this podcast, we sit down with experts and pioneers in the fields of medicine and technology to learn about everything from the scientific research of today to the innovation of tomorrow. Journey with us to tell the stories of Master Minds in the WashU community around us and beyond. www.mastermindspod.com
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Episode #36: Mapping the Human Genome with Dr. Eric Green, MD, PhD
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On this episode, Will sat down with Dr. Eric Green, the director of the National Human Genome Research Institute (or NHGRI) since 2009, which is one of the research arms of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Prior to his appointment, Dr. Green trained at Washington University School of Medicine in the laboratory of Maynard Olson, and later as…
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147 - Chrono Trigger (feat. Anime Sickos)
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Tom and Joe (Anime Sickos) throw the lads in the Epoch and hop through time as they cover Square’s landmark 1995 RPG: Chrono Trigger. Topics include the thrill of flame tornados, the anxieties of action time battle, and the importance of camaraderie in the face of an apocalyptic DJ from space. LIVE SHOW TICKETS AVAILABLE NOW Anime Sickos: A podcast…
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146 - Shrimp Jesus and the Death of Facebook
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THIS IS A PREVIEW. FOR THE FULL EPISODE, GO TO Patreon.com/worstofall The lads made this episode with their own hands! 😊 Why do episodes like this never get likes? 😢💔 AmenAmenAmen. 🙏🇺🇸 It is our birthday and nobody wished us one. So excited to begin our cake journey. 🎂 Did you notice when it left you? Why don’t you see these anymore? Gone too soon!…
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145 - Dragon Ball Z (feat. Alex Ptak)
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Alex Ptak (Quorators) and the lads check their power levels and slap each other silly as they cover the finale of the Frieza arc of Akira Toriyama’s seminal 90’s anime: Dragon Ball Z. Topics include the complex logistics of wishes, the gorgeous design of the characters, and the eternal popularity of a ripped protagonist who can eat and eat and eat …
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144 - Dr. Dobson’s “Wooton Hears a Woo(ton)!” [Whit’s Endless Summer 36]
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THIS IS A PREVIEW. FOR THE FULL EPISODE, GO TO Patreon.com/worstofall LIVE SHOW TICKETS AVAILABLE NOW In preparation for their pilgrimage to Colorado Springs, Colorado, the lads take a gander at what the heck’s been going on in Odyssey in recent years and finally meet everybody’s favorite mail-delivering Odyssian: Wooton Bassett. Topics include the…
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143 - Dennis Prager’s For Goodness Sake (feat. Tall Bart)
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Tall Bart (@verytallbart) joins the lads for another dip into the Prager Pool as they interrogate the painful sketch comedy and baby-brained moralizing of Dennis Prager’s educational video series: For Goodness Sake. Topics include Prager’s unique rhetorical style, the bafflingly high-profile cast, and how David Zucker, Trey Parker, and Matt Stone h…
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Two of my favorite hymns played by notes on piano.By docalford1605
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Reading of Romans 6 to 8.By docalford1605
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Critiquing Dr. Ruckman's comments on 2 Corinthians 12By docalford1605
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An American Dissident's Continued Political CriticismBy docalford1605
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An American Dissident's Continued Political CriticismBy docalford1605
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A Biblical Look At the Translation of EnochBy docalford1605
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An American Dissident comments on WarBy docalford1605
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Spring, Texas 1990By docalford1605
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Discussion with an Agnostic EvolutionistBy docalford1605
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Refuting Hyper divisionalismBy docalford1605
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The book of Isaiah is shown as a picture of the Bible itself with the same number of chapters as the number of books and many other coincidences.By docalford1605
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Sermon preached at Bible Baptist Church, McKinney, Texas in June 1994.By docalford1605
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The Ministry of Reconciliation - 2 Corinthians 5:17By docalford1605
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Partial exposition on the New CreatureBy docalford1605
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Episode #35: The Story of Ubiquitin with Dr. Aaron Ciechanover
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In this episode, Will sat down with Dr. Aaron Ciechanover, biologist and Distinguished Research Professor in the Rappaport Faculty of Medicine at the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology. Dr. Ciechanover is renowned for his work in studying the method that cells use to degrade and recycle proteins. While in the laboratory of Avram Hershko, they…
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THIS IS A PREVIEW. FOR THE FULL EPISODE, GO TO Patreon.com/worstofall Devon and Trinket (Traditional Scrench) join the lads for some adventures in Christian puppetry as they dive into the rich tapestry of Bible stories and malevolent paint brush gods that is: Gerbert. Topics include UK children’s programming, the militarism of evangelical ideology,…
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141 - Team America: World Police (feat. Stephen Stout)
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Stephen Stout (Puffs) and the lads hop into their red, white, and blue helicopters and completely obliterate France as they cover Trey Parker and Matt Stone’s 2004 fraught satire of the War on Terror: Team America: World Police. Topics include Parker and Stone’s origins, the film’s overwhelming racism, and what a movie so steeped in the post-9/11 h…
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Episode #34: Uncovering New Worlds with Prof. Tansu Daylan, PhD
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Today, we sat down with Professor Tansu Daylan, astrophysicist, Assistant Professor of Physics, and faculty fellow at the McDonnell Center for the Space Sciences here at WashU. Dr. Daylan works with data from NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite on the discovery and characterization of exoplanets. He is also interested in researching the pa…
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140 - Doki Doki Literature Club! (feat. Anne Huston)
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THIS IS A PREVIEW. FOR THE FULL EPISODE, GO TO Patreon.com/worstofall Anne Huston (Caveat NYC) joins Brian and Josh in getting bombarded by the twee writing, adorable anime girls, and abject existential terror of Team Salvato's 2017 dating sim/horror cult hit Doki Doki Literature Club! Along the way they talk about the appeal of fanworks, the peril…
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139 - The Dutch Knight Rises (feat. Scott Benson) [Whit’s Endless Summer #35]
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Scott Benson (Night in the Woods) returns once again to Odyssey as he and the lads finally wrap up their three-part coverage of the many spy-games, double-crosses, and hastily wedged in Christian morals of the epic, twelve-part Adventures in Odyssey saga: Darkness Before Dawn. Topics include the wiki-centric writing, the benefits of pirate mutiny, …
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THIS IS A PREVIEW. FOR THE FULL EPISODE, GO TO Patreon.com/worstofall The lads grab their iFoNeS and spam your inbox as they dive headlong into the nightmarish world of stalking and stand up comedy that is Richard Gadd’s hit 2024 Netflix series: Baby Reindeer. Topics include the show’s origins as autobiography, the incredible performances, and what…
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137 - Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (feat. Josh Sawyer)
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Josh Sawyer (Pentiment, Fallout: New Vegas) and the lads grab their razors and complete their arms as they attend the tale of Hugh Wheeler and Stephen Sondheim’s 1979 barber-ic bloodbath: Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street. Topics include the show’s horror film origins, the unimpeachable score, and the long term ramifications of using S…
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THIS IS A PREVIEW. FOR THE FULL EPISODE, GO TO Patreon.com/worstofall The lads hop into their wooden spaceships and fly straight into the dying sun as they cover Morbius Digital Games’ hit 2019 indie exploration/Newtonian physics simulator: Outer Wilds. Topics include the cozy/existentially terrifying vibes, the efficacy of the storytelling, and wh…
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Episode #33: Discovering Hepatitis C Virus with Dr. Charles Rice, PhD
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Today we sat down with Dr. Charles Rice, the Maurice R. and Corinne P. Greenberg Professor in Virology at Rockefeller University. Dr. Rice is an expert in RNA viruses, viruses that use RNA as opposed to DNA in their genome, and studies the body’s innate immune response to infection. However, he is most known for his work on Hepatitis C Virus, which…
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135 - The Boss Baby: Family Business (feat. Patrick Willems)
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Patrick Willems (Night of the Coconut) returns to finish some unfinished business as he and the lads fight off the deep conservatism and unending baby ninja armies of Dreamworks’ 2021 babypalooza: The Boss Baby: Family Business. Topics include the nebulous target audience, the uncanny animation, and the consequences of pivoting from the increasingl…
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Episode #32: Autophagy and ATD with Dean David H. Perlmutter, MD
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Today, we sat down with Dr. David H. Perlmutter, the George and Carol Bauer Dean of Washington University School of Medicine, executive vice chancellor for medical affairs, and the Spencer T. and Ann W. Olin Distinguished Professor. Dean Perlmutter leads one of the largest medical schools in the country, currently ranked #2 in NIH funding among US …
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Extreme Divsions between Bible editions. A reasonable critique of this unnecessary extremism.By docalford1605
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Third part in a series on the King James Bible and its authority.By docalford1605
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Part two in a series on the King James Bible and its supernatural authority.By docalford1605
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Part One of a series on the King James Bible and its supernatural authority.By docalford1605
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A little of what the Bible says about the original creation and the fall of Lucifer.By docalford1605
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134 - The Dutch Knight (feat. Trevor Strunk) [Whit’s Endless Summer #34]
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THIS IS A PREVIEW. FOR THE FULL EPISODE, GO TO Patreon.com/worstofall! Trevor Strunk (No Cartridge) returns once again to the horrors of Odyssey as he and the lads face down the true return of the devious Dutchman, Regis Blackgaard, in part two of Adventures in Odyssey’s most notorious run: Darkness Before Dawn. Topics include the vocal dexterity o…
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133 - Sam Shepard’s Buried Child (feat. Yurié Collins)
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Yurié Collins (@babypinkhaus) and the lads grab their shovels and go digging for babies as they cover Sam Shepard’s 1979 Pulitzer Prize-winning fever dream of a play: Buried Child. Topics include the toxic masculinity of the cowboy persona, the plays’ morbidly rich imagery, and the terrors of any generation, past or present, facing the dead baby bu…
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Episode #31: How to Fix a Broken Heart with Dr. James Cox, MD
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In this episode, we’re talking to the “father of cardiac arrhythmia surgery”, Dr. James Cox. The former Division Chief of Cardiothoracic Surgery here at WashU Med, Dr. Cox developed surgical procedures for multiple cardiac arrhythmias, including the Wolff-Parkinson-White syndrome, atrioventricular nodal reentry tachycardia, automatic atrial tachyca…
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132 - Macbeth in Canada: Slings and Arrows, Season Two [feat. Graham Techler]
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Graham Techler (Tooning Out the News, Fairview) joins the lads for another cursed production of Macbeth as they return to both the New Burbage Theatre Festival and the second season of the hit AcornTV Canadian dramedy: Slings and Arrows. Topics include the curse of The Scottish Play, the showrunners’ dedication to an authentic portrayal of a life i…
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Episode #30: Crystallizing GPCRs with Dr. Brian Kobilka, MD
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Today, I sat down with Dr. Brian Kobilka, Professor in the Department of Molecular and Cellular Physiology at Stanford University School of Medicine. Dr. Kobilka is an expert on a class of receptors called G protein-coupled receports, or GPCRs, that are essential in a majority of biological processes including light, flavor, and odor perception and…
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The lads hop in a chopper and get into some morally dubious hijinks as they cover Robert Altman’s 1970 war/frat house comedy that inspired one of the most well-regarded TV shows of all time: M*A*S*H. Topics include Eliot Gould’s mustache, rampant 70s misogyny, and what it means to live in a country that can only define itself by settler conquest. W…
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130 - Heaven is for Real (feat. Radio Free Tote Bag)
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THIS IS A PREVIEW. FOR THE FULL EPISODE, GO TO at Patreon.com/worstofall This week, Josh and Brian are joined by Radio Free Tote Bag as they take the next direct flight straight to God’s Throne. We discuss the history of books about heaven, the Near-Death Experience community, and the many thrills of saying “Burpo” over and over again. Want more TW…
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129 - Blackgaard Begins (feat. Devon) [Whit’s Endless Summer #33]
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Devon (Kill James Bond!) becomes an Odyssian convert as they and the lads journey to Odyssey for further adventures in vandalism, charge cards, and the impending return of the Devious Dutchman himself: Regis Blackgaard. Topics include New York solo shows, the proper way to cook a Chansey, and what it means to be the only pirate in a gang of roaming…
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THIS IS A PREVIEW. FOR THE FULL EPISODE, GO TO Patreon.com/worstofall The lads grab their carts and make straight for the turkeys as they cover four iterations of one of America’s favorite game shows: Supermarket Sweep. Topics include the history of supermarkets, the insidiousness of Whammies, and the difficulties of weaponizing 90s nostalgia in th…
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127 - Death Beconnies Her [Whit’s Endless Summer #32]
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The lads return to Odyssey for further adventures in disability, grief, and how to solve a love triangle when the third point is Jesus Christ. Topics include the edification of the disabled, Bill Kendall’s penchant for cruises, and how to properly mourn the loss of a loved one like a good, honest Christian. Want more TWOAPW? Get access to our full …
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Episode #29: Merging Neutron Stars with Prof. Mark Alford, PhD
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Today, we sat down with Professor Mark Alford, theoretical physicist and former chair of the Department of Physics at Washington University. Prof. Alford researches the physics of ultra-high density matter, such as in the core of a neutron star to get insights on how particles behave in situations that we do not encounter on Earth. He has also done…
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