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Chris Paul and Burning Bright take on The Death of Stalin, Armando Iannucci's 2017 satire of the power struggle that followed Stalin's death, with Steve Buscemi as Khrushchev, Simon Russell Beale as Beria and Jeffrey Tambor as Malenkov. Chris admits he turned it off years ago without getting what it was doing, and now calls it a brilliant takedown of the collectivist administrat...

CannCon and Alpha Warrior open SITREP 170 after a cold open honoring the troops, and the first stretch is pure deployment nostalgia: CannCon's recipe for gourmet ramen, how Marines in Iraq got water hot enough in a canteen cup, and EOD stories about what they used to heat it. CannCon then shows off gear, including an FRT trigger, a Mossberg 940 Pro and a custom-camo "apocalypse ...

Frankie Val is joined by his cousin Sherry for a loose Thursday night, opening with the Yankees' exit, Halloween bobbing for apples, plans for next year's Jamboree and an update on Frank's 1987 Bronco. Frank and Sherry talk over the riots in France, comparing them with Occupy Wall Street and Black Lives Matter, then turn to voter fatigue, local New York politics and Joe Rogan's ...

Matt McDonagh returns for episode two of Life in the Singularity with a deep dive on superintelligence. Matt opens by arguing that "AI" is the wrong name for what we're living through: in his view it isn't artificial at all, but the pooled natural intelligence of all of us, pushed forward by the data, hardware and software curves he laid out in episode one. He covers the gap bet...

Ashe and CannCon settle in for Chapter 17 of The Creature from Jekyll Island, "Den of Vipers," and it does not lighten the mood. The chapter walks through the fight over the Second Bank of the United States: who held the power to emit bills, how Nicholas Biddle ran the bank like a private government, and why Andrew Jackson treated it as a threat to the republic. They follow the...