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We talk to Kat Abughazaleh about her IL-09 campaign announcement, what inspired her to run, what she thinks needs to change in democratic party politics and how to take on the growing threat from republicans. Find Kat Abughazaleh at Katforillinois.com Support us at www.Patreon.com/WesternKabuki Find where else we post our episodes at and more: https://linktr.ee/westernkabuki

Tom and Joe from the Anime Sickos are here and we talk about the history of 4chan, the websites and culture that preceded it, and more. Note that this episode covers the timeline from the mid 1990s right up to the website's founding. Another episode further discussing the inner-workings of 4chan, notorious moments, and what's going on today will follow in the future. In the meantime, follow Anime Sickos at https://animesickos.com/ Support us at www.Patreon.com/WesternKabuki This was originally recorded on February 21st

Independent journalist Marisa Kabas walks us through the wild world of DOGE and what to expect next. Follow her at: https://bsky.app/profile/marisakabas.bsky.social https://www.thehandbasket.co/

We talk about the rise of anti-woke venture capitalists in the new era of Trumpism 2.0 and revisit some old brands from the conservative parallel economy to see how they're doing in 2025. www.Patreon.com/WesternKabuki

The gang guested on the pilot episode of "Culture Dumpster" by Johnny Amizich, author for Hard Drive & friend of the show. You can hear the full thing and more at https://www.culturedumpster.com

We talk about the deteriorating reality we live in from the new 'Lavender Scare' in the Trump government, to tumbling Tesla sales, and a few other stories. Support us at www.Patreon.com/WesternKabuki Find where else we post our episodes at and more: https://linktr.ee/westernkabuki

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Molly White joins us to discuss the future of crypto under the Trump administration and more. Follow Molly: https://www.citationneeded.news/ https://www.mollywhite.net/linktree/ Support us at www.Patreon.com/WesternKabuki

The first annual gamer awards show ft. the ghost of Dave. www.Patreon.com/WesternKabuki

Friend of the show Cameron, aka MLYP has just launched a podcast on the Something Awful forums. We talk about how it birthed the worst website in the world: 4Chan and the political schism that formed between the two sites. Note that this episode will be followed up with a 4chan history episode soon. Follow Cameron: https://bsky.app/profile/10bux.bsky.social https://bsky.app/profile/mlyp.bsky.social Support us at www.Patreon.com/WesternKabuki

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Josh from TWOAPW returns to talk about why the TikTok ban happened, and how that differs from the reason we've been told. Listen to The Worst Of All Possible Worlds: https://www.worstpossible.world/ Note: we recorded this episode immediately preceding the ban issue and reinstatement Support us on www.Patreon.com/WesternKabuki

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Our friend Alex aka LolOverruled tells us about his history with Mr Beast, then joins us for an odyssey through the worst tweets of Q4 2024. It is an episode full of heat and also some genuine brain rot. Follow Alex: https://x.com/LolOverruled https://loloverruled.substack.com Note: Alex/Lolo's mic was having some issues, we got it sorted out during the break and you can hear part two at www.Patreon.com/WesternKabuki SLIDES: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1tBFtkfasMWaVhw90cuKv0rJMDj9DjBpeSVZTZpHHYzo/edit?usp=sharing

Nick Calandra, Editor-in-Chief of Second Wind joins us to discuss the challenges of having a critical engine around the gaming industry and more. Follow Nick at: https://x.com/nickjcal https://x.com/SecondWindGroup www.Patreon.com/WesternKabuki for the whole episode https://wkchicago.brownpapertickets.com/ for tickets to our first live show in Chicago on 3/15

We talk to Megan Romer, National Co-Chair of the Democratic Socialists of America, on the future of DSA, what to expect in the next four years, and how to get off the couch and start organizing.

Chicago Update: The final round of tickets are available at: https://wkchicago.brownpapertickets.com/ If you're in Seattle, NYC, Philly, LA, and possibly Dallas: I wouldn't be surprised if we have something fun for you soon too. Everyone else, wait and see!

We discuss the ongoing Groyper/Tech Bro Civil War with our friend Diana then debate on whether Adrian Dittmann is actually Elon, or simply an admiring pervert. Follow Diana @ https://twitter.com/rlycalm Listen to our full premium episodes on www.Patreon.com/WesternKabuki

Find the rest of this premium episode at www.Patreon.com/WesternKabuki This was originally recorded on December 29th, 2024 Follow Ed Zitron at https://www.wheresyoured.at/ Listen to Better Offline Podcast with Ed Zitron at https://www.betteroffline.com/ Find where else we post Western Kabuki episodes at and more: https://linktr.ee/westernkabuki

Arif Hasan is an NFL reporter and author writing a book on the relationship between Western Imperialism and Sports. Follow Arif at www.WideLeft.Football or https://x.com/ArifHasanNFL Listen to Arif's show 60 Minute Drill with Caleb and Ed Zitron at www.linktr.ee/60minutedrill Support this podcast at www.Patreon.com/WesternKabuki

Listen to the full episode at www.Patreon.com/WesternKabuki We're going back to 2015 to talk about the political landscape, on and offline, that led to the election of Donald Trump to see what's changed and what we can learn. Follow David: https://www.youtube.com/@therationalnational https://bsky.app/profile/daviddoel.bsky.social

We talked to Matt Binder about Hawk Coin, the financial key to success provided to people by Hailey Welch, as well as Luigi Mangione the alleged UHC CEO shooter. Follow Matt: Newsletter: http://disruptionist.com YouTube: http://youtube.com/MattBinder Podcasts: http://ScamEconomy.com // http://DOOMEDcast.com // @majorityfm PURCHASE TICKETS TO OUR FIRST EVER LIVE SHOW AT WWW.PATREON.COM/WESTERNKABUKI

June accidentally stumbled head first into the beautiful world of "ice wall" theory, so we brought Marcos onto the show to help completely and totally ice pill her. Follow Marcos's show: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-aint-shit-show/id1525171566

We enter the Costco Cinematic Universe with friend of the show Hoots to talk about the dark world of child influencers. Follow Hoots: https://www.youtube.com/@hootsyoutube This episode was originally slated to be a Patreon exclusive, but we unlocked it for everybody. If you'd like to support us, please consider doing so at www.Patreon.com/WesternKabuki

Cartoonists & co-authors of the Justice Warriors series Matt Bors & Ben Clarkson are back to talk Bubble City & read some news with us. Strap in for a very silly episode. Buy Justice Warriors 2: Vote Harder at: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Justice-Warriors-Vol-2/Matt-Bors/JUSTICE-WARRIORS/9781952090325 Support us at www.Patreon.com/WesternKabuki

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June and Alex have opted to leave the left and take positions within the incoming Trump Administration. Caleb refused, and is now in a secure prison facility. The crew discuss various social media figures and politicians who are "leaving the left" with friend of the show and co-host of Kill James Bond, Devon. Follow Kill James Bond at www.KillJamesBond.com or Devon at www.twitter.com/Devon_OnEarth Support us at www.Patreon.com/WesternKabuki

June gives her thoughts on the results of the election. Note: this is a re-upload. A previous version of this episode was corrupted during the upload and cut off prematurely.

By listener request, and just in time for the election, we're doing the RFK Jr. episode. Ryan Broderick joins us to talk about the troubling man Trump wants to put in charge of the FDA and the current conservative landscape at large. Follow Ryan at twitter.com/broderick Support us at www.Patreon.com/WesternKabuki

We brought on Talia Lavin, author of Culture Warlords and Wild Faith: How the Christian Right Is Taking Over America to talk about the current moral panic we find ourselves in. Follow Talia: https://www.twitter.com/mobydickenergy Buy Wild Faith: https://bookshop.org/p/books/wild-faith-how-the-christian-right-is-taking-over-america-talia-lavin/21057649?ean=9780306829192 Follow Western Kabuki on Patreon: www.Patreon.com/WesternKabuki

Find the rest of the episode at www.Patreon.com/WesternKabuki Follow Aaron at https://x.com/afrocosmist Listen to the Trillbillies Workers Party Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/trillbilly-workers-party/id1227003413 Find where else we post Western Kabuki episodes at and more: https://linktr.ee/westernkabuki

Thank you for your submissions! This quarter had most tweets we've ever gotten (and genuinely some of the worst). We sorted through several hundred of them in order to bring you this episode, and to celebrate we brought Eliot and Ricky from Internet Today. Follow twitter.com/EliotETC twitter.com/RickyFTW and twitter.com/InternetTodayTV or subscribe to Internet Today at Youtube.com/InternetTodayTV Find Part 2 at www.Patreon.com/WesternKabuki

We're joined our friends Josh and Brian from TWOAPW pod to return to the South Korean gender wars, some forum history, and more. Thank you to all the help we got on this episode from our listeners and friends in South Korea as well as domestically. Heads up: this episode contains descriptions of various crimes of sexual nature as well as other various inappropriate behaviors to that end. Part two gets particularly dark. You can support TWOAPW at: Twitter.com/TWOAPW There is a follow up to this episode available at Patreon.com/WesternKabuki where you can hear lots more additional content.

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We bring back John Cullen from Blocked Party + The POD Kast to discuss some of the worse products being advertised to you on the internet. Follow John at @CullenTheComic on Twitter Support us at www.Patreon.com/WesternKabuki

Caleb's new show with Arif Hasan and Ed Zitron is out now! If you like the NFL and want a show that does a cultural and political critical analysis, this one's for you. If not, we will be back to our regularly scheduled programming soon! Follow us on twitter at twitter.com/60MinutePod and find links to download on spotify, apple etc at www.linktr.ee/60MinuteDrill

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We brought our friend Janie on to discuss some horrible trends happening in the world of AI Facebook Slop, get into why these images exist, and into the financial incentives surrounding them. You can see the images we referenced in our notes, they're on our Patreon at www.Patreon.com/WesternKabuki or for free on our Discord at linktr.ee/WesternKabuki Follow Janie Danger https://twitter.com/Wifesucker Download East Atlanta Sober at https://www.janiedanger.com/

We briefly discuss the how the DNC sucked, then get into the history of Adin Ross with our friend Miles Klee of the Rolling Stone. View Miles's work, including his article on Adin Ross here: https://rollingstone.com/author/miles-klee/ Listen to the full episode at www.Patreon.com/WesternKabuki

Ed joins us to talk about Google's anti-trust legal woes and the red flags to look for if you're trying to predict the AI bubble burst. We also run the numbers on how many images you would need to generate per day on Grok to bankrupt X, and whether Elon Musk will go out like David Carradine or Budd Dwyer. Find Ed at wheresyoured.at Support our show on Patreon at www.Patreon.com/WesternKabuki

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Jocat is a content creator who has gone viral multiple times, albeit not for good reasons. If you haven't seen his controversially uncontroversial content, don't worry. We spend the first half of this episode discussing it, then we bring Jocat on himself for the second to half chat about his experience being shoved into the spotlight and the consequences of being a "main character".

Caleb here. We were joined on this week's Patreon by our friends from the Minion Death Cult show, which has been one of my favorite shows for some time. We ran through some insane news stories and talked about how Facebook is destroying the boomer mind. Check them out at https://x.com/miniondeathcult Listen to the whole thing at www.Patreon.com/WesternKabuki

We brought Molly White, crypto researcher and curator of "Web3 is Going Great" on to discuss the rise and fall of the BAYC. Follow Molly at: www.twitter.com/molly0xFFF and www.twitter.com/web3isgreat

Biden is out, Kamala is in. Trump is mad. Elon wants to spend a lot of money on another failed project. We also talk about couch fornicator and Vice Presidential hopeful JD Vance's very bad memoir "Hillbilly Elegy" as well as some other fun things with WK legal correspondent and right-wing b.s. understander Mark Bankston Follow Mark Bankston at www.Twitter.com/BankstonAtLaw Support us at www.Patreon.com/WesternKabuki

Note: this was recorded the day Trump got convicted and sat on the shelf for awhile, some of the intro banter has arguably not aged well. Our friend Diana aka @rlycalm is back to take on the quarterly bracket. Follow her at www.twitter.com/rlycalm You can find the slide show linked in our discord, patreon, or at this link that probably won't work on whatever podcast app you're reading this from. Listen to part two at www.Patreon.com/WesternKabuki

We're going Summer Mode. Marcos joins us to talk about the 4th of July, hotdogs, some wild news stories, some mail bag, and more. For part two, follow us at www.Patreon.com/WesternKabuki Follow Marcos at www.Twitter.com/AinterShow

We talk about the Dr. Disrespect situation with the person at the heart of the story. If you didn't know, Rod initially alluded to this story on twitter in 2020 but didn't explicitly state what he knew, causing a wave of backlash. We ask him why he couldn't go public then, what he knew, what's changed since, and what to expect going forward. Follow Rod at www.twitter.com/Slasher Support us at www.Patreon.com/WesternKabuki

Julian from the QAA pod drops by to take our Gamer Gate 2 studies international. We discuss South Korea's current "gender war" how it relates to gaming, and what that means for us back here in the United States. Follow Julian here: twitter.com/julianfeeld Support us at www.Patreon.com/WesternKabuki Join us over on Discord at www.discord.gg/westernkabuki

We brought on Josh from The Worst of All Possible Worlds podcast to talk about an apocalyptic conspiracy theory that is gaining traction in evangelical online spaces: the red heifer sacrifices. But we also had to also bring back Marcos to examine this information through the vaguely schizophrenic lens of his new worldview: the chiral vectors. We recommend smoking weed out of a can to get aluminum poisoning for this episode. Also possibly ingesting some ayahuasca. Find The Worst of All Possible Worlds at twitter.com/twoapw Find Josh at twitter.com/boshj Find Marcos at twitter.com/aintershow