Wetwired

About Wetwired

Podcast about culture, control, and empire

Publisher

Sean & Jules

Category

society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

Yes

First episode

1 Nov 2021

Latest episode

26 Jul 2026

Latest episodes

186 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   26 Jul 2026

   Episode 97: Meatball Business

   As a way to wrap up our Cold as ICE series about the creation of an American paramilitary force answering only to Trump, we wanted to find some solid historical examples where secret police forces were dismantled. The idea was to give some reasons to hope that things could be better. The problem was that we couldn’t find any examples at all! You could say this is an episode about trying to write that episode. In every case, once a secret police force was created, it remained. Very much like every expansion of state power or infringement on human rights, once they happen, it takes an enormous effort to put things back to something like they once were. When a secret police force or some brand of Brown Shirts was finally disbanded, it was always due to a constellation of internal and external pressures that ultimately took down the entire regime. The paramilitary arm of it just went down with it. No one ever seems to get rid of a secret police force without dismantling the whole government. Along the way, we also talk about how IKEA helped support Romania's Securitate secret police under Ceaușescu. Later on this episode, we get into a Vanity Fair profile of a Sloperator VC fund called Harpoon and a little about Pete Hegseth's tailor. Bathroom reading: https://www.foxnews.com/media/homan-blasts-dem-hypocrisy-deportations-recalls-past-obama-gave-award-enforcing-border https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/04/ikea-funds-romania-secret-police-communist-era https://www.vanityfair.com/story/vc-defense-tech-harpoon

2. 

   9 Jul 2026

   Episode 96: Hail Eris! feat Bob Campbell and Gabriel Kennedy

   We're joined by first time guest Bobby Campbell, creator of the beautiful comic book adaptation of Robert Anton Wilson's Illuminatus! Trilogy, Tales of the Illuminatus! as well as many, many other wonderful things. We also have back with us long time friend of the show Gabriel Kennedy, author of Chapel Perilous: The Life and Thought Crimes of Robert Anton Wilson. Together we dig into some ideas about how we can make sense of things, stay sane, and win when the times get tough. Along the way we talk about why people are attracted to certainty over nuance, the ways that media and outright propaganda can shape our perception, and ultimately how Discordianism and RAW's Maybe Logic can cut through the noise. The topics range widely with a crowd like this. We dip into how RAW differs from a lot of superficially similar cultural figures. While scams, cults, and thought leaders (cringe) might identify real problems, they almost inevitably just end up replacing the status quo with their own half-baked ideas. RAW purposely went a different way. Instead of spoon feeding a replacement belief system, he encouraged people to stick with questioning and to keep interrogating reality (my words). We also bump into chaos theory, get into some gritty details about Discordianism, its founder Kerry Thornley (aka Omar Khayyam Ravenhurst, aka Ho Chi Zen) and how he happened to know Lee Harvey Oswald before Kennedy's assassination, and so many other fun digressions. Inevitably, we keep coming back to the conclusion the chaos is unavoidable but how we respond to it is not. Instead of suffering under its weight, our time is better spent influencing our worlds with intention and valuing curiosity over certainty. Editor's comment: We had more than a few internet connection problems during this conversation. Gabriel enters and leaves like a chaos apparition throughout the episode. The unaffected of us were probably much more entertained by this than he was. But since he's a real pro, he didn't let it get him down. You, the listener, shouldn't either. Find Bob Campbell's work: https://www.bobbycampbell.net https://www.etsy.com/shop/WeirdoverseGiftShop https://talesofilluminatus.com/ https://x.com/RGC777 https://bsky.app/profile/bobbycampbell.net Bobby's Illuminatus! Kickstarter https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/bobbycampbell/tales-of-illuminatus-3-opus-chao Find Gabriel Kennedy's work: https://chapelperilous.us https://gabrielpatrickkennedy.substack.com/ https://bsky.app/profile/propanon.bsky.social Music: Airglow - Spliff and Wesson (CC-BY) Fly your crypto-leftist flag with our personal love letter to Juan José Arévalo, philosopher and socialist president of Guatemala, and the airline he nationalized. wetwired.printful.me/

3. 

   5 Jun 2026

   Premium Episode 72: Emergency Pool Repair (Sample)

   We kick this one off some host lore about a guy who ended a friendship over the What the Bleep Do We Know? movie. It only goes downhill from there. For some reason, I kept calling Representative Anna Paulina Luna "Rep. Lujan". There's no excuse for my behavior and I'll be docking my own pay for this episode. Then while we were talking about the Sazan Island project (Epstein Island II) that Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump are setting up in the Mediterranean, Jules repeated some TikTok disinfo about the Albanian prime minister's house being set on fire. The protests against them building a resort on a protected island are very real but the prime minister's house is intact and unburned. I'm docking his pay for episode as well. Hunter Biden's art sales and Trump's effort to turn all of Washington D.C. into America's front yard with an old Camaro on cinder blocks also comes up. If you make it through all that, we spend the better part of the episode getting into some of the abuses and allegations of abuse committed by Flock Safety cameras. We also talk about how in the bag some small town mayors and council members are for Flock. Some of the articles we abused for this episode: https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2026/05/17/citys-ai-license-plate-cameras-led-an-uproar-state-emergency/ https://www.banderabulletin.com/article/3093,council-votes-to-terminate-flock-safety-contract https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/security/virginia-police-used-flock-cameras-track-driver-safety-lawsuit-surveil-rcna230399 https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/12/effs-investigations-expose-flock-safetys-surveillance-abuses-2025-review https://www.atlasofsurveillance.org/ https://www.404media.co/buspatrol-put-ai-cameras-in-tens-of-thousands-of-school-buses-now-they-want-to-give-cops-access/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Holocaust_in_the_Netherlands

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YouTube views

4,818,331

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Apple Podcasts (US)

4.7 / 5

13 ratings

Spotify

4.6 / 5

9 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 71 / 100

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Quality

72

Social presence

0

YouTube

93

Engagement

85

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