Pol and Pop (Politics/Pop Culture)
Episodes
108 episodes
POP CULTURE: Daredevil: Born Again Season 2 Ep 8 (Part 5)
Full spoilers for all Daredevil series including Born Again Season 2 Episodes 1-8.Episode OverviewI'm joined again by Claude, an AI from Anthropic, for the final part of the Born Again Season 2 coverage. "The South...
POP CULTURE: Daredevil: Born Again Season 2 Ep 7 (Part 4)
Full spoilers for all Daredevil series including Born Again Season 2 Episodes 1-7.Episode OverviewI'm joined again by Claude, an AI from Anthropic, for Part 4 of the Born Again Season 2 coverage. "The Hateful Darkn...
POP CULTURE: Daredevil: Born Again Season 2 Eps 5&6 (Part 3)
Full spoilers for all Daredevil series including Born Again Season 2 Episodes 1-6. Episode Overview I'm joined again by Claude, an AI from Anthropic, for Part 3 of the Born Again Season 2 coverage. This ...
POP CULTURE: Daredevil: Born Again Season 2 Eps 1-4 (Part 2)
Daredevil: Born Again Season 2, Episodes 1-4 Analysis (Part 2)Full spoilers for all Daredevil series including Born Again Season 2 Episodes 1-4.Episode OverviewI'm joined again by Claude, an AI from A...
POP CULTURE: Daredevil: Born Again Season 2 Eps 1-3 (Part 1)
Daredevil: Born Again Season 2, Episodes 1-3 Analysis (Part 1)Full spoilers for all Daredevil series including Born Again Season 2 Episodes 1-3.Episode OverviewI'm joined by a special co-host this epi...
POLITICS: And... We're Back!
The weather is warming up, so Woody and I took an opportunity to hang outside and catch up on the political situation in a broad, freeform manner. We touch on a range of current issues while circling an underlying theme: how the desire for powe...
Escalation Isn't Aggression: Rule Folklore, Broken Loops, and the Case for Good Trouble
What happens when the rules people follow don't actually match the rules that are written down?In this episode, Anthony examines "rule folklore" — the process by which organizational norms drift from written policy through repetition and...
Did Obama just say aliens are real??? Let's discuss...
Former President Barack Obama recently sat down for an interview with Brian Tyler Cohen, and during a lightning round at the end of their conversation, the topic unexpectedly turned to aliens. Obama’s response -- suggesting that extraterrestria...
"Release the Files" Aftermath Thoughts
So much has happened politically even in the past couple weeks! I didn't feel inspired over the course of this past month to work on an essay episode with ChatGPT. But it's probably for the best that I didn't, since there was so muc...
The System and the Self – Autism, Bureaucracy, and the Collapse of Empathy
The System and the Self – Autism, Bureaucracy, and the Collapse of EmpathyWhat happens when a system built on procedure forgets the people inside it?In this deeply personal episode, Anthony explores how a single change in w...
Belief & Belonging — Why Truth Loses to Tribe
This is a slightly shorter, more focused episode on why people believe what they do. We unpack the Overton Window, how autistic and neurotypical wiring approach truth differently, the social power of narrative, and why belief often reflects bel...
Overtrump: The Collapse of an Illusion
Donald Trump’s rise was built on illusion — inevitability, fear, and myth. But illusions don’t last forever. In this episode of Pol and Pop, Anthony unpacks the breaking point: from the stolen 2024 election to the Epstein revelations, ...
Faith in the Fire
What does it really mean to have faith—in a world that’s hostile to truth, allergic to uncertainty, and obsessed with appearances? In this latest solo episode, I dive headfirst into the tunnel of spiritual grit, political exhaustion, and the st...
Hope in the Hellscape
My voice hasn't been that great for much of this past month, but I've reached the point in time where either I use up some of the 3 hours of time I have for uploading, or I lose it. So, I figured, what the heck-- we'll do it live! I...
How the Election Was Stolen
This episode of Pol and Pop explains how the 2024 Presidential Election was stolen. The technical details are explained in a way that people without a technical background can understand them. Go ahead and share this with anyone who...
So... if the Election Was Stolen, Why Didn't Anyone Say Anything?
This is the second episode I'm putting up for people who just found out about the 2024 Presidential Election having been stolen. I'm trying something a little different here-- a carefully put-together, very quick episode that answers the ...
You Just Found Out the Election Was Stolen—Now What?
You just found out the 2024 Presidential election was stolen... or, maybe you've come across some jaw-dropping data that makes you question what really happened.If you're looking for clarity in the chaos, you're in the right place. In th...
POLITICS: Our 2024 Predictions... and Some New Ones
Yes, we finally got back to it-- seeing how all of the predictions Woody and I made in December 2023 for the calendar year 2024 turned out.After that, we go into some current events discussion, including about people in the U.S. governm...
POLITICS: SoreyNotSorey-- a Quick Update on Trump's Return
It's been almost two months since Trump got back in and started the whirlwind of chaos. So Woody and I decided to check in and take stock of things. We delve into tariffs, economic blackouts and boycotts, Trump as a Russia asset, an...
POP CULTURE: Daredevil: Born Again episodes 1 and 2 with John (full spoilers)
The Pop Culture half of the podcast is back!In this episode, I talk with John about the first two episodes of Daredevil: Born Again (essentially Daredevil season 4) which were eagerly awaited and just released this past week. We a...
POLITICS: Some Thoughts from Woody, Post 1/20. And Maybe This Is All for Now?
I got Woody's perspective on this whole situation with the Trump Presidency starting anyway, despite the fact that he didn't actually win... and that now he's basically admitting that Elon and he hacked the voting machines.We recorded t...
POLITICS: Post-Inauguration Full Debrief-- the Steal, the Silence, and the Future
It's January 20th. The inauguration of Donald Trump happened today, with no apparent action by the Democrats or anyone else beforehand to address the numerically-provable fact that he stole the election from Kamala Harris. Before th...
POLITICS: The End of Limbo... Does Trump Still Get In after All?
We're very, very close to January 20th now. The public at large is certainly expecting that Trump will be inaugurated and begin his Presidency at noon on the 20th. But things are very crazy right now, and, if it's all business as us...
POLITICS: A Stolen Election about To Be Revealed... So, What Next?
About a month has gone by since my last episode. We're still in limbo in terms of hearing official word from the powers that be. But we aren't crazy-- we know something is up. Those in the know have been collecting the evidenc...