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**321 – Utopian Justice** Oct 28, 2024

This week we turn our imagination goggles toward the concept of justice, exploring how it’s currently practiced vs what an ideal justice system would look like.

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cw: mentions of rape/prison rape
25:50 – 26:40, 30:50 – 31:40, 49:20 – 49:33

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**320 – You Piece of Shit!** Oct 09, 2024

Pieces of shit. What are they? Who are they? *turns to mirror* Am I a piece of shit?

The answers to all these questions and more, right here!

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**319 – Housework** Sep 26, 2024

Housework is a never-ending job that every household needs to do, that causes conflicts between roommates, that disproportionately falls on women, and that you don’t even get paid for.

This episode is your one-stop show for cleaning tips & tricks, hacks, stats, and facts on housework, and the historical wages for housework movement.

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sources: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1E_fX4HS5MjcBxOyaGMGFMghwFhDdGzuryV95f0SwTH4/edit

Theme song by Trai Bo

**318 – Peter Thiel is not a good guy** Sep 03, 2024

Surveillance billionaire Peter Thiel is an example of a rich guy who ruins everything. He’s not a good guy.

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Source Sheet: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-CHXcEaAkSulBaNqdVZG9qh52xeOWOgFBTAv-xReZ1Q/edit#heading=h.1bq8umv8qozj
Theme Song: Matt Hogan

**317 – Rich People Ruin Everything** Aug 27, 2024

This episode on SRSLY WRONG, Shawn & Aaron discuss the ways in which rich people, and the existence of “richness” corrupts and ruins everything in our society.

Books mentioned:
Limitarianism by Ingrid Robeyns
Mastering the Universe by Rob Larson

**217 – Trash! (2020)** Aug 08, 2024

This classic Srsly Wrong episode now has a transcript!

Whether stinking up our humble alleyways or our pristine twitter feeds, TRASH is something that everybody hates.

But what, or who, is trash?

This week, The Wrong Boys and their pal Trash Puppet use a magnifying glass to discover that trash is neither person nor object, but an Ideology

Opening theme song by Trai Bo
https://traibo.bandcamp.com/

Closing theme by Punkerslut

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**316 – WRONG WARS Ep 3 – For The Family** Jul 29, 2024

The WRONG WARS Saga Continues!

When little Jeffy joins a cult, his father is left with no choice but to do what is necessary to save his son, even if it means betraying everything he believes in.

Wrong Wars is a new audio comedy series from Srsly Wrong, available only on Patreon

Listen to the full ep here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/109005671

**315 – Supply Supply Supply (w/Kate Willett)** Jul 15, 2024

We are joined by comedian and activist Kate Willett to discuss the housing crisis and what the real solutions are. Nimbys v yimbys, supply arguments, social housing, homelessness, and more!

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https://www.instagram.com/kate.willett/
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Books Mentioned:
– The Tenant Class – Ricardo Tranjan
– Capital City: Gentrification and the Real Estate State – Samuel Stein
– In Defense of Housing: The Politics of Crisis – David Madden & Peter Marcuse
– The Right to the City – Henri Lefebvre
– Building Our Future: Grassroots Reflections on Social Housing – https://www.populardemocracy.org/news/publications/building-our-future-grassroots-reflections-social-housing

**314 – The Shock Of Victory (w/ Franz)** Jun 28, 2024

Shawn and Franz discuss David Graeber’s 2007 essay “The Shock of Victory”, which makes the provocative claim that “the biggest problem facing direct action movements is that we don’t know how to handle victory.”

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The essay: https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/david-graeber-the-shock-of-victory
The Declaration of the Occupation of New York City: https://archive.org/details/DeclarationOfTheOccupationOfNewYorkCity

Theme song by Jodi Pongratz

**313 – WRONG WARS EP 2: Airline Food – TRAILER** Jun 15, 2024

The WRONG WARS Saga Continues!
A disagreement about airline food becomes an economics lesson with deadly consequences, and pirates!
Wrong Wars is a new audio comedy series from Srsly Wrong, available only on Patreon
https://www.patreon.com/posts/313-wrong-wars-2-106229823
Thanks for your support!

**312 (TRAILER) – WRONG WARS Ep 1: No Guts, No Glory** May 31, 2024

The WRONG WARS Saga Begins!

After a chance encounter at a gloryhole changes one mans life forever, the world will never be the same.

Wrong Wars is a new audio comedy series from Srsly Wrong available only on Patreon:
https://www.patreon.com/posts/312-wrong-wars-1-105330139

Thanks for your support!

**311 – Srsly Wrong 10th Anniversary Special** May 24, 2024

Hard to believe Srsly Wrong is ten years old. Come celebrate a decade of utopian podcasting with Shawn and Aaron as they reminisce and reflect on the show, answering listener questions alongside an audio-dramatized biopic-esque reenactment of their podcasting journey.
Thank you all for your support, we would never have done it without you!

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**310 – Big Mad about Big Oil’s Big Apocalypse (w/ Hazel Thayer)** May 10, 2024

The oil and gas industry has known for decades that climate change is real and they covered it up for profit. We are joined this week by Hazel Thayer to discuss the details behind this travesty, which many are now calling history’s largest corporate campaign of mass murder.

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https://www.instagram.com/hazelisonline/
https://www.youtube.com/@hazelisonline

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Sources/Further Reading:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Q0C6yzonOtclwPuamasIDwkuXh4FIknqg1ROO39lCY4/edit?usp=sharing

**309 TEASER – Further Conversation About the Politics of Anger and The Idea of Violence** May 01, 2024

We got a lot of feedback on episode 304 (about Anger) and episode 305 (about political transition and in particular the sections on violence) and we thought, hey, maybe we can just continue both of those conversations together, in a very special bonus episode, and see if that dialogue generates anything interesting. Spoiler alert: it did. Also, we did some sketches. I know we usually do so maybe I don’t need to say that, but, I don’t know, I just wanted to make it clear because I think the sketches in this episode are great.
Full Ep Here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/309-we-respond-103318727

**308 – The Case for 100% Wind Water Solar to Combat Climate Change (w/ Mark Z Jacobson)** Apr 12, 2024

This week we welcome Mark Z Jacobson to the show to lay out the case for a full immediate transition to renewable energy, and how he’s crunched the numbers to show that wind / water / solar can meet our energy needs right now, clean our air, and address climate change.

No Miracles Needed: How Today’s Technology Can Save Our Climate and Clean Our Air –
https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/no-miracles-needed/8D183E65462B8DC43397C19D7B6518E3

Theme Song by Spam Risk:
https://spamrisk.bandcamp.com/album/s-t

The strength and content of climate anger (study):
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0959378023001048

**307 TEASER – Simple Sabotage Field Manual** Mar 22, 2024

In 1944, the precursor to the CIA published the ‘Simple Sabotage Field Manual’. Now declassified, sections of this document are sometimes spread online framed as a guide to disrupting left-wing movements. In this special bonus episode, the Wrong Boys read the document, and are surprised by what they find.

full ep: https://www.patreon.com/posts/307-simple-field-100810339

Links:
PDF: https://www.cia.gov/static/5c875f3ec660e092cf893f60b4a288df/SimpleSabotage.pdf
Text: https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/26184/pg26184-images.html

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**444 – 4 Months for Work, 4 Months for Vacation, 4 Months for Democracy** Mar 08, 2024

In this very special 444th episode (sent back in time from the future) the Wrong Boys discuss the 4/4/4 Movement. A new and exciting labor movement to split the work year into three equal parts: four months for work, four months for vacation, and four months for democracy.

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**305 (TEASER) – Q&A: How A Library Socialist Transition Might Happen** Feb 23, 2024

We’re back with the second part of our transition Q&A, focusing on frequently asked questions related to the role of authoritarianism, self-defense, means & ends, and political parties as we navigate sticking to our values while on the road to a democratic, ecological, egalitarian future.

full episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/305-q-how-might-99011357

**304 – The Wrong Boys Get Angry** Feb 09, 2024

Learn what gets under the Wrong Boys skin, from the petty to the profound, as we let the rage flow freely in this first episode of Season 10 and have a realization about the effectiveness of utopian political anger.

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**298 – [UNLOCKED] Q&A: How to Make Library Socialism Now** Jan 24, 2024

Aaron and Shawn answer a series of our most-asked questions about Library Socialism, focusing on first steps of a hypothetical Library Socialist movement, transitionary trajectories towards an ecological and democratic society, and share a toolkit of possible steps towards a democratic, ecological, egalitarian future pushed by people power and our highest ideals. A path where the good folks win out over bad, despite all the forces against us. This week on SRSLY WRONG.
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Transcipt now available:
https://srslywrong.com/transcripts/

**303 – (TEASER) Taylorism** Jan 23, 2024

Wrong Boys discuss the soulless hierarchal theories of Frederick Taylor and his influence on evolution of the workplace.

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**Library Socialism & Complementarity (2019)** Jan 16, 2024

We continue our re-release of the fan favorite Library Socialism trilogy with the final of the OG trilogy. This time, exploring the philosophical alternative to hierarchy, the notion of cooperative difference, and the dynamic tension of mutually dependent opposites. We explore complementarity as a natural fact, analytical framework, and ethical imperative. Hierarchy, reciprocity, nature, life, death, grasping and loss are just some of the topics touched on as the Wrong Boys try really hard not to talk about the meaning of life.
Transcript Available: SRSLY WRONG 200 – Library Socialism & Complementarity (Transcript)
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Join us on the Library Socialism forum, Usufruct Commons.

**Library Socialism & The Irreducible Minimum (2019)** Jan 08, 2024

In another fan favorite re-release. Human need: what exactly is it, how do we meet it, and what level should nobody fall below? These are the questions which plague the Wrong Boys as they embark on the next exciting installment of their series on Library Socialism.

Transcript available here.
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Join us on the Library Socialism forum to participate in the development of these ideas: http://www.librarysocialism.com

**Library Socialism & Usufruct (2019)** Jan 02, 2024

For your use and enjoyment: a re-run of a fan-favorite episode of Srsly Wrong, using the lenses of history, complexity, retention, and culmination to talk about libraries, sharing, and the socialist future we want to build.

Transcript now available: https://srslywrong.com/transcripts/

Join the Library Socialist forums: https://librarysocialism.com

Opening Theme Song:
Jodi Pongratz

Closing Theme Song:
Hunt Hunt Hunt Camp
https://hunthunthuntcamp.bandcamp.com/

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**302. TEASER – The Christmas Truce (1914)** Dec 20, 2023

In this very special holiday bonus episode, Aaron and Shawn talk about the ad-hoc Christmas Truce between 100,000 German and British soldiers during WW1, spitball some utopian policy, and talk about a world where fewer 18 year old’s heads are exploded for basically no reason.

Listen to the whole thing here: *302 – The Christmas Truce (1914) | Patreon

**THE SRSLY WRONG HALLOWEEN TAPE** Dec 04, 2023

The Wrong Boys, who do not believe in ghosts, buy a spooky house on the cheap to open up a sanctuary for fragile puppies.

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**300 – Ecological Luxury** Nov 30, 2023

Can we have our cake and eat it too? Can humanity live comfortable, luxurious lives, all while reducing our energy consumption and living within the bounds of ecology? Listen to find out!

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Show notes

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**297 – Platform Decay, and How Amazon Raises Prices for Everyone (w/ Cory Doctorow)** Oct 07, 2023

We are joined by Cory Doctorow to discuss three of his recent books “Chokepoint Capitalism”, “The Internet Con”, and “The Lost Cause”. We discuss Enshittification, Monopolies, Interoperability, Green New Deals, and Library Socialism!

Help Cory Kickstart the new audiobook for ‘The Lost Cause’:
https://lost-cause.org/

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**296 – Evolutionary Psychology: Rapey and Fake** Sep 27, 2023

Plunging into the strange (and often horrifying) world of academic evolutionary psychologists describing their own beliefs in public podcast appearances, we hear from and respond to David Buss, Randy Thornhill, Geoffrey Miller, and Jordan Peterson on the nature of patriarchy and human sexuality.

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**295 (TEASER) – Riffing on Atlas Shrugged: The Movie 3** Sep 13, 2023

The culmination and crescendo of the Atlas Shrugged film series trilogy is a broken mess of a film that lays the contradictions at the heart of Rands philosophy bare for all to see.

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**294 (TEASER) – Dunking on Atlas Shrugged: The Movie 2** Sep 06, 2023

Part two of our Atlas Shrugged The Film The Podcast series. With a lower budget and an all-new cast, can this film do what the first couldn’t and convert the Wrong Boys to Randian Libertarianism? The answer within.

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**293 – TEASER – Making Fun of Atlas Shrugged: The Movie Pt 1** Aug 29, 2023

This is the first episode in a new Patreon series on the Atlas Shrugged film trilogy. Join us as we recount and critique the cinematic adaptation of the first third of Ayn Rand’s libertarian magnum opus, Atlas Shrugged.

Full episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/293-atlas-movie-88399620

**292. Evo Psych Bullshit** Aug 15, 2023

What do you get what you take plain old patriarchy and apply a fresh new pseudo-scientific veneer of hierarchical naturalism? Get your mating preferences in order, start evaluating one another’s genes, and enjoy this examination of Evo-Psych Bullshit.

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292 – Evo-Psych Bullshit | Patreon
Theme Song by Dopecreature
Stephen Jay Gould on Sociobiology
Bookchin on Sociobiology
The Age of Scientific Sexism by by Mari Ruti | ISBN 1628923792
Mothers and Others by Sarah Hrdy | ISBN 0674060326
Adapting Minds by David J. Buller

**291. (TEASER) There’s More Than One Way to Lose a Banana** Jul 28, 2023

In this BONUS EPISODE, The Wrong Boys try their hand at a “classic srsly wrong” style episode, like the “good old days” and riff about a variety of subjects that happen to be on their mind. Subjects include the writers/actors strike, the movie “how to blow up a pipeline,” and the Degrowth/Banana discourse on twitter.

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**290 – Half Earth Socialism W/ Troy Vettese & Drew Pendergrass** Jul 18, 2023

We talk to utopian authors Troy Vettese & Drew Pendergrass about Half Earth Socialism, their vision for an egalitarian and ecological future. A future that rejects solar geoengineering and nuclear power in favor of a democratic rewilding of half the earth, in order to absorb carbon, cut methane, and restore biodiversity.

The Book:
https://www.versobooks.com/en-ca/products/2650-half-earth-socialism
The Half Earth Game:
https://www.half.earth/

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**279. [UNLOCKED] The Golden Age of Internet Piracy** Jul 10, 2023

The Wrong Boys take a deep look at the history of copyright, rebut common arguments against online piracy, and stand in awe at the utopian possibilities of file sharing.
Originally Released March 1, 2023 on Patreon:
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**289. TEASER – A Critique of Peterson’s 12 Rules Part 3** Jun 28, 2023

This is a teaser for all an all-new BONUS episode on Patreon.

There will be no digital kissing practice on portable nintendo this week, as we complete our analysis of Jordan Peterson’s book with his final 3 rules, where his hierarchy train of thought finally reached its political destination, with a long digression into anti-feminist politics.

Listen to the full episode here:
https://www.patreon.com/posts/289-petersons-12-85278732

**288. Artifical Intelligence Pt. 2** Jun 22, 2023

This week, Shawn and Aaron continue their maddening descent into AI sludge hell.
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Show Notes:
SRSLY WRONG 287/288 – AI Show Notes – Google Docs
Episode Artwork by Anna Sorokina // www.annasorokinaart.com

**287. Artificial Intelligence Pt. 1** Jun 14, 2023

The Wrong Boys are talking AI, ALI, AGI, and ASI- ChatGPT, Midjourn, For-Profit Hype Cycles, Self Driving Cars, Roko’s Basilisk, Whether AI can save us, and Whether AI might doom us. Whether we should even call it AI in the first place. What about the Artists? All these ideas and more, crammed into this humdinger of a 2 hour first course of our two-part on AI.

Show Notes

Episode Artwork by Anna Sorokina / www.annasorokinaart.com
Theme Song by alman the man

**286. A Chat with Everyday Anarchism** Jun 07, 2023

Shawn is joined by Graham Culbertson of the Everyday Anarchism podcast to talk about Library Socialism, Everyday Anarchism, Basic Income vs Jobs Guarantee, David Graeber, and other topics!

Doctorow on Everyday Anarchism:
Graeber’s Pirate Enlightment — Cory Doctorow (everydayanarchism.com)

Democratize Everything on Srsly Wrong:
207 – Democratize Everything – srsly wrong

**285. TEASER – A Critique of Jordan Peterson’s 12 Rules (Part 2)** May 26, 2023

This is a teaser for all an all-new BONUS episode on Patreon.
Shawn and Aaron continue their read of Jordan Peterson’s fascinatingly strange right wing Christian diarrhea self-help book, getting through rules 7, 8, and 9 with some digressions about all-meat diets and hierarchal naturalism.

Listen to the full episode here:
https://www.patreon.com/posts/83564328/

**284. A Child’s Right to Read and Know (w/ librarypunk)** May 16, 2023

Crossover episode! We went on librarypunk about the rights of minors to read, to know, and to be treated as people. We talk about our memories as children and accessing information at various stages in our development, and what the liberation of children will look like in regard to libraries.

On librarypunk (with notes)
090 – Right of Children to Read and Know feat. Srsly Wrong | librarypunk

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**283 TEASER – A Critique of Jordan Peterson’s 12 Rules (Part 1)** May 01, 2023

We have a balanced discussion about the first 6 rules for life from Jordan Peterson’s life’s work. This bonus episode is an antidoot to chaos.

full episode here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/283-jordan-12-1-82213892

**Whale Octopus Mushroom** Apr 17, 2023

This whale octopus mushroom, Shawn and Aaron Whale Octopus and Mushroom. For you and your WOM.

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Read WOM Books:
The Cultural Lives of Whales and Dolphins by Hal Whitehead, Luke Rendell
The Soul of an Octopus by sy montgomery
Entangled Life by Merlin Sheldrake

281. Graeber’s Pirate Enlightenment (W/ Andrewism) Apr 03, 2023

Shawn and Aaron are joined by Video Essayist Andrewism to discuss David Graeber’s second posthumous book- “Pirate Enlightenment”
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Watch Andrewism on YouTube:
Andrewism – YouTube

Check out Pirate Enlightenment:
Pirate Enlightenment, or the Real Libertalia (macmillan.com)
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**280. SRSLY WRONG EATS THE BUGS (Preview)** Mar 22, 2023

In this very special new BONUS episode, Aaron + Shawn discuss eating bugs, the world economic forum, globalism vs globalization, the politics of disgust, and even try out eating a few bugs of their own.

Books cited:
Edible Insects: A Global History by Gina Louise Hunter
Edible Insects and Human Evolution by Julie J Lesnik
Insects: the edible field guide by Stefan Gates

Articles cited:
Insect diet helped early humans build bigger brains, study suggests – The Source – Washington University in St. Louis (wustl.edu)
Conservatives React Differently to Disgusting Pictures – The Atlantic

**BS Jobs w/ David Graeber (2018)** Mar 09, 2023

The Wrong boys speak with David Graeber about his new book ‘Bullshit Jobs’, exploring the ever multiplicating ways our society makes up stuff for people to do. They also discuss the puritan work ethic, and even discover how to solve global poverty in just three steps.

Episode Transcript:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1bo-56B7NUGw_3dXmSOj-EOiYpSw33_mxGlczyVF3m4c/

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**279 (TEASER)- The Golden Age of Internet Piracy** Mar 01, 2023

This is a teaser for our full length bonus episode available here:
https://www.patreon.com/posts/279-golden-age-79421989

The Wrong Boys take a deep look at the history of copyright, rebut common arguments against online piracy, and stand in awe at the utopian possibilities of file sharing.

**278 – PIRATES (w/ Marcus Rediker)** Feb 09, 2023

Detailing the true egalitarian, working-class history of the golden age of piracy with historian Marcus Rediker.

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Check out ‘Under the Banner of King Death’ here!
http://www.beacon.org/Under-the-Banner-of-King-Death-P1928.aspx

Marcus’ Website:
https://www.marcusrediker.com/

A ‘history from below’ reading list w/ Marcus
https://www.historyworkshop.org.uk/activism-solidarity/history-from-below-a-reading-list-with-marcus-rediker/

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**277 – Comedy Against Work (w/ Madeline Lane-McKinley)** Jan 27, 2023

We are joined by Madeline Lane-McKinley to talk about the intersections between comedy and utopianism, the world of stand-up comedy and the tendency towards domination-centered comedy, using comedy to escape work, and the importance of play.

Check out her book ‘Comedy Against Work: Utopian Longing in Dystopian Times’!
https://www.commonnotions.org/comedy-against-work

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276. Talkin’ Video Games (PREVIEW) Jan 19, 2023

In this freewheeling BONUS conversation, the wrong boys talk about Aaron being a mobile gamer, Shawn’s reaction to playing Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 (2), fascism in video game culture, the term “fashy” and a number of other related subjects.
Listen to the full ep here:
*276 – Talking About Video Games | SRSLY WRONG on Patreon