Best Absurdity Junkies Podcasts (2024)

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Death on Vinyl 4:09

10M ago4:09

4:09

How Many Village Idiots Can There Possibly Be? Waiting for society to be jarred back to its senses if it even has any left. Rib Recordings. Apparently, Fascism is an Option in 2025.

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America's Value Menu 6:07

1y ago6:07

6:07

Revisiting Bloodletting our societal ills. I'm also honored and proud to announce that I am Phoenix Magazine's Best of the Valley Best Author 2023. And Check out tickets to Best Fest on Aug. 5th in Phoenix at Phoenixmagazine.com.

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Junkies for Capitalism (A CaffeiNation) 5:00

1y ago5:00

5:00

Caffeination Ruling the Nation, Diminishing our woes and patronizing ourselves for our daily traumas, and Don't do drugs because I have to say that so I don't get sued.

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Culture by Gaslight / The Definition Indefinite 6:14

1y ago6:14

6:14

Is it Gaslit or Gaslighted? Either way, it's what we're doing to ourselves. Find a way to stop thinking about other people's unmentionables and stop shoving hopeful cliches down everyone's throats. Plus a Father's Day Sale at DeadStarPress.com. 15% off both items when you get Fucking Relax: A Journal For Mental Well-being and the new Dead Star Pres…

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The Shape of Change 4:44

1y ago4:44

4:44

The business of minding your own. In a recent discovery we realized that a lot of things have been a way we weren't aware of for all of history... Nothing actually changed. Click here to check out my new Self-Care Journal-Fucking Relax: A Journal For Mental Well-being at DeadStarPress.com. Only $8.99 for a limited time.…

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Rancor the Anchor 4:42

1y ago4:42

4:42

May the 4th be with you. Our inherent reluctance for change. And a new Journal from Dead Star Press that just might help with your self-care regimen. Find it here during our presale for a limited-time special price. Fucking Relax Presale at DeadStarPress.com.

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The Mount Rushmore of Four Horsemen 4:04

1+ y ago4:04

4:04

Lions, tigers, and societal-self-decapitation, oh my! If it seems that tragedies are more frequent, that's probably because they are. We're dumb with money. Plus other cheery thoughts and my new children's book, which you can get by clicking here: https://deadstarpress.com/shop/

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The Patron Saints of Patronization (A Demagogue for Demigod) 6:18

1+ y ago6:18

6:18

Motivation speakers would be the worst driving instructors. Demagogues we turn into Demigods. More Logical Fallacies. Our Capacity for Compassion.

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The Sandwich Murders 3:39

1+ y ago3:39

3:39

The horror of a poorly made sandwich. Find more at DeadStarPress.com and JosephDNewcomer.com. If you'd like a free copy of my novel, Diminishing Return, purchase a copy of my new novel, Darkest Day, through Friday the 13th, 1.13.2023, at DeadStarPress.com. We also have a buy one book get one 50% off during our End of the World Sale until the end of…

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The Suggestive Corruptive 3:47

1+ y ago3:47

3:47

Election Season Reminder That No Matter Who Wins, We All Lose. Truth, Lies, And Why We No Longer Know The Difference. One Person's Utopia Is Another's Dystopia.

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The Paradoxical Dichotomy of Logic and Hope 3:47

2y ago3:47

3:47

Are we doomed? Well, we did throw cheese at baby's faces, so maybe we should be. How knowledge leads to pessimism, aka knowledge. And, you can't build a time machine with positivity.

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Thoughts From Inside A Crumbling Society Vol. III 14:41

2y ago14:41

14:41

Tip your waitstaff. A lifehack for knowing who's an asshole. A collection of thoughts and sarcasm from 2021, another one of the worst years in recent history. Check out some music I just released at https://open.spotify.com/artist/1wlVe7S1qx8n77CfbsyD45 or search Joseph D. Newcomer wherever you stream and download music.…

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Hokum's Razor 4:29

2y ago4:29

4:29

Our arrogance and how it leads to our greatest tragedies. The simplest solution is that we're the problem.

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Newton's 3rd Law of Feral Munitions 4:15

2y ago4:15

4:15

A word from our sponsors on Shoving It Up Your Ass. Bigotry, we didn't invent it, but we've really made it our own. And a disclaimer in case any of you hurt yourselves or your butts.

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Help Share the Diminishing Return "Afterword" for World Suicide Prevention Day 5:43

2y ago5:43

5:43

Saturday 9.10.22 is World Suicide Prevention Day. I wanted to share the Afterword of my novel, Diminishing Return, for anyone who may need to hear it. If you or anyone you know is having issues with depression, please listen and share. You never know who you may be helping.

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Thoughts From Inside A Crumbling Society Vol. II 6:34

2y ago6:34

6:34

Negativity, Pessimism, Ennui, Nihilism, and all of the other reasonable things to feel about 2021. A collection of anti-upbeat thoughts from another horrible year.

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Thoughts from Inside a Crumbling Society Vol. I 5:52

2y ago5:52

5:52

Stop touching alligators and other information I wish people already understood. Thoughts from late 2019 and early 2020... spoiler alert, they aren't very uplifting.

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Way Fairer 4:06

2y ago4:06

4:06

How shutting the fuck up can make life fairer--ableism through cliché. Check out Darkest Day at DeadStarPress.com.

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The Flight of the Platypus and Poop and Turdcumstance 5:42

2y ago5:42

5:42

Just be weird, find your happy turd, and just try to eek out a decent existence amongst the void of nothingness--An experiment in positivity. Plus a poem by Dr. Charles Seusskowski and an invite to hang out with me at Drawn to Comics in Glendale, AZ on Saturday, August 13th from 11AM-3PM. Find out more on the Facebook event invite right here: https…

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Darkest Day Excerpts 12:28

2y ago12:28

12:28

Taking a break from the blog to read you some excerpts from my new novel, Darkest Day. Listen to 4 excerpts including a Thought and Other Absurdities exclusive bonus deleted scene from the book. Plus a PSA about hot farts.

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Viral Humanity and the Happily Unconverted 6:05

2y ago6:05

6:05

I don't know who needs to hear this, but no one needs to hear it... Evangelize Elsewhere... and The Talking Dead.

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Ants Under a Magnifying Glass and The Reality of Perception 6:06

2y ago6:06

6:06

Perception Vs. Reality Vs. Whatever-the-fuck This Is. You're invited to the Dead Star Press Launch Release and Signing Parties in Phoenix, AZ and Erie, PA. Find more info at the following links: Dead Star Press Party Phoenix. Dead Star Pres Party Erie.

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Reflections in Populism 3:27

2y ago3:27

3:27

Why we defend the indefensible. That age-old question, "What the fuck?" And more. Click here to preorder your copy of Dead Star Press's first anthology of Weird, From the Dead.

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idGnorance (Freudian Slap Part II) 4:08

2+ y ago4:08

4:08

An Announcement: Dead Star Press's First Anthology, From the Dead, and my first children's book, Let's Make S'mores, are now available for preorder at DeadStarPress.com. Plus...Compassion, Seeing ourselves in the Stars and it Ain't Pretty, and Human instinct is for Shit.

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Ep 167 - REUNION SPECIAL! 2:51:17

2+ y ago2:51:17

2:51:17

We've been gone for so long, we just couldn't keep our unqualified opinions to ourselves any longer here at Nic, Tys and Videotape! THIS WEEK we're attempting to cover over a years worth of movie nonsense, including a shortened OSCAR EXTRAVAGANZA (nothing much happened there, right?), a series of QUESTIONS WITHOUT NOTICE that covers some of the hot…

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Night Owl in the Apple Tree 3:44

2+ y ago3:44

3:44

Children are evil geniuses, and I may never sleep again. Visit me at the Prescott Wellness Expo on April 2nd and 3rd at the Hilton Garden Inn Downtown Prescott, AZ. I'll have Dead Star Press merch and books to sign. Stop by and help us get the word out about Dead Star Press.https://prescottwellnessexpo.com/…

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The Ethics of Blasphemy (Je$u$ on Paper Part III) 5:59

2+ y ago5:59

5:59

A Heretical Economy, Religion for Profit and Politics, and Dead Star Press featured writers for our Anthology.

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Kiss My New Butt 3:38

2+ y ago3:38

3:38

A renaissance of stupidity, Missing the point in Mississippi, and Adequate butt replacements for the kid in I Need a New Butt.

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Take Me Off, Take Off Me 3:30

2+ y ago3:30

3:30

A-ha, Tyrants with Expired Coupons, and Other Forms of Totalitarianism, plus another important disclaimer from Thought and Other Absurdities about openly singing 80s songs in public.

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Goldfish Arsonists from the Future 3:13

2+ y ago3:13

3:13

When Goldfish Drive and The Many Reasons We Don't Have Time Travel Click on the following titles to read about my other works now available on Amazon: Diminishing Return, El Camino Blue, and Thought and Other Absurdities. Check out DeadStarPress.com and JosephDNewcomer.com

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Judge Jury and Protozoan Parasite and Teach Your Children... Well! 4:44

2+ y ago4:44

4:44

We're all like stubborn toddlers in a power struggle to not wear our pants. We're also adults trying to get our toddlers to go to fucking bed. Click on the following titles to read about my other works now available on Amazon: Diminishing Return, El Camino Blue, and Thought and Other Absurdities. Check out DeadStarPress.com and JosephDNewcomer.com…

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Deep State Hypnosis 4:08

2+ y ago4:08

4:08

Conspiracy theory 101, Nothing is unbelievable anymore, and Hypnotized by Biggie Smalls or Bill Clinton. Click on the following titles to read about my other works now available on Amazon: Diminishing Return, El Camino Blue, and Thought and Other Absurdities. Check out DeadStarPress.com and JosephDNewcomer.com…

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Finite Parallels 4:42

2+ y ago4:42

4:42

The atheistic mind of my discerning 5-year-old, the many parallel universes of our personalities, and Pope Ableist The Hypocritical.Click on the following titles to read about my other works now available on Amazon: Diminishing Return, El Camino Blue, and Thought and Other Absurdities. Check out DeadStarPress.com and JosephDNewcomer.com…

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Churchill Forgotten and Octothorpe Oblivion 5:28

2+ y ago5:28

5:28

Our tradition of insanity, repeating the mistakes of the past. Click on the following titles to read about my other works now available on Amazon: Diminishing Return, El Camino Blue, and Thought and Other Absurdities. Check out DeadStarPress.com and JosephDNewcomer.com

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Arts and Craps and The Importance of Accidental Moments 6:41

2+ y ago6:41

6:41

Time is relative to how badly you have to go to the bathroom, and Poop is almost always funny, but some things you just don't dad-joke about. A glimpse into my special brand of parenting. Click on the following titles to read about my other works now available on Amazon: Diminishing Return, El Camino Blue, and Thought and Other Absurdities.…

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Despite All The Rage 2:26

2+ y ago2:26

2:26

Why the caged rat whispers, fear-mongering vs. self-delusion, and other useless Simile. Click on the following titles to read about my other works now available on Amazon: Diminishing Return, El Camino Blue, and Thought and Other Absurdities.

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Market Pacifier 4:30

2+ y ago4:30

4:30

Bulls, Bears, and Binkies, Oh My! Our ever-falling standards for what we consume. Click on the following titles to read about my other works now available on Amazon: Diminishing Return, El Camino Blue, and Thought and Other Absurdities.

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One Man's Trash is Another Man's Terminus... A Litter Nation 3:39

2+ y ago3:39

3:39

Ending 2021 with my satirical, bold predictions for 2022. Happy New Year. Don't Litter. Click on these links to check out offers and more. SALE EXTENDED!!! Check out the DeadStarPress.com holiday sale and get Thought & Other Absurdities in Paperback for $7.50, T-Shirts for $15, and DSP Coasters for $5! Spend $25 and get a free copy of Thought & Oth…

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Dante's Infernal Paradise Lost and Found 3:32

2+ y ago3:32

3:32

Empathy, Mental Health, and the greatest lie of which we've ever convinced ourselves or the hardest truth we've come to understand. Misery doesn't really love company. Check out the links below for special offers at Dead Star Press and my works of fiction.

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Tragic Mirror on the Wall 3:56

2+ y ago3:56

3:56

If our reality is normal, normal is the worst reality. Also, try less and weird isn’t weird. Fun with Names, and An Important Disclaimer. Click on these links to check out offers and more. SALE EXTENDED!!! Check out the DeadStarPress.com holiday sale and get Thought & Other Absurdities in Paperback for $7.50, T-Shirts for $15, and DSP Coasters for …

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Bullet in the Echo Chamber 5:26

2+ y ago5:26

5:26

A nation pushed to the outer edges of reality and rationality. Oprah shouts, "YOU'RE GETTING RADICALIZED, AND YOU'RE GETTING RADICALIZED, YOU'RE ALL GETTING RADICALIZED" Let's agree to agree, for the sake of Confirmation Bias. Plus, in hindsight, we'd like you to go ahead and show us pictures of your food. Click on these links to check out offers a…

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The Odds of Afterlife 3:40

2+ y ago3:40

3:40

Believe what you like, but don't pretend to know. Celebration and Disappointment in the Afterlife. We're all wrong, but I could be wrong. Check out the Dead Star Press holiday sale and get Thought & Other Absurdities in Paperback for $7.50, T-Shirts for $15, and DSP Coasters for $5! Spend $25 and get a free copy of Thought & Other Absurdities to gi…

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The Ire in Irony 3:23

2+ y ago3:23

3:23

This is stupid, let's make it viral. Fame in the 2020s. The stupidity virus. Buy Thought & Other Absurdities in Paperback Check at Dead Star Press Check out the blog at JosephD.Newcomer.com Find All of Joseph's Work on Amazon

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No Sleep Till Orbit City 3:20

2+ y ago3:20

3:20

We could be The Jetsons, but we choose to live under the bedrock. The ridiculousness of romanticizing our past. Eep Op Ork AhAh. Buy Thought & Other Absurdities in Paperback Check at Dead Star Press Check out the blog at JosephD.Newcomer.com Find All of Joseph's Work on Amazon

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Future Revelations in Stupidity (In Honor Of Our Finest Educators) 5:48

2+ y ago5:48

5:48

Accepting the Ignorance of Our Past. Dedicated to William and Stacey Hetrick and all of the world's finest teachers and educators who perpetually evolve instead of digging in their heels and holding on to antiquated ideas. Buy Thought & Other Absurdities in Paperback Check at Dead Star Press Check out the blog at JosephD.Newcomer.com Find All of Jo…

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That Good Shit and Fault's Dilemma 5:10

2+ y ago5:10

5:10

Are we, literally, "The Shit?" In the Lie of Either/Or--Choose Neither/Nor. Buy The "I don't know who needs to hear this, but no one needs to hear it" t-shirt on Amazon. Buy Thought & Other Absurdities in Paperback Check at Dead Star Press Check out the blog at JosephD.Newcomer.com Find All of Joseph's Work on Amazon…

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Unfathomable Versions (Version 2) 5:03

2+ y ago5:03

5:03

Of all of the possible versions of you, just try not to be the one who's the asshole. Devil's Advocates & Internet Arguers. Buy The "I don't know who needs to hear this, but no one needs to hear it" t-shirt on Amazon. Buy Thought & Other Absurdities in Paperback Check at Dead Star Press Check out the blog at JosephD.Newcomer.com Find All of Joseph'…

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Introverted Inverted 4:18

3y ago4:18

4:18

When You Can't Not Do It. An Appeal To The Brave Introverts of Social Media. Buy The "I don't know who needs to hear this, but no one needs to hear it" t-shirt on Amazon. Buy Thought & Other Absurdities in Paperback Check at Dead Star Press Check out the blog at JosephD.Newcomer.com Find All of Joseph's Work on Amazon…

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The Rebellion Conformity 3:39

3y ago3:39

3:39

Rebel, Conform, It's All The Same. An Open Apology to The Lizard King.Buy Thought & Other Absurdities in PaperbackCheck out Dead Star PressCheck out the blog at JosephD.Newcomer.comFind All of Joseph's Work on Amazon