Hocus Pocus Lack Of Focus

Crack open your history books, Oisin is taking us on a tour through the evils for America once again. This week, we're testifying in front of the very chill, very normal Joseph McCarthy and his Red Scare, which swept through the US in the 1950s and essentially rewired the American political brain, with its effects still being felt today. Along the way, we get into Roy Cohn and learning American culture through The Simpsons, Billie Holiday, The Rosenbergs, The Kennedys, some very questionable accents, and Pete Hegseth's even more questionable tattoos

Short episode alert! Probably best you don't cue this one up around mealtimes, because this week we're opening the casefile of one Armin Meiwes, the infamous German cannibal and his voluntary victim Bernd Brandes. Trigger warning, which shoud go without saying. Along the way, there's more of Oisin's impressions, Dick Tracy, the open awfulness of the early internet, Star Trek novels, but shockingly not a single Simpsons "Armin Tamzarian" reference. For shame.

Back on our weird shit this week! Justy guides Dani, Oisín and you, our lovely listeners, into the stars to tell us about the Annunaki, the ancient and mythical deities who supposedly decreed the fate of mankind. Just like the elites on Epst... no, we won't go there again.

This week's tangents include Dani's fear of "Earth Song", old people's mouth sounds, and yes, hog talk.

Switching lanes this week, as Dani's sporadic side-podcast breaches containment onto main feed. We thought it'd be a nice change of pace after 6+ hours of Epstein dread, so instead have Dani and Justy delving deep into the dire depths of Reddit stories.
Next week, we finally get to our Annunaki episode!

We can’t promise that the Epstein debacle will end any time soon irl, but we can confirm this is our last episode on it for a while! It’s all just very bleak! We need a bit of a break! As ever, big ol’ content warning for everything you might think we’ll talk about. Some bright spots along the way include SNL’s never-ending unfunniness, Pete Hegseth being “rugby straight”, the Glasgow derby infecting Dani’s twitter mentions, Justy almost getting accidentally pegged, Winter Olympic jigglies, and a heated debate on the pronunciation of the word “Caribbean”.