The News Never Ends
The News Never Ends
The News Never Ends
This is The News Never Ends, and we're your hosts, Dan Ackerman and Peter Ronson! We record our 'cast out of Chicago and release a new episode every Thursday, serving up the hottest takes from a panel of our funniest and most online friends, Chicago-based and nationwide, professional comedians and weirdos in our chatgroups. We cover everything from what happened this week to what happened last week and everything in between, including interviews with authors, journalists, activists, workers in the comedy industry, and freakish combinations of all of the above. We are so grateful to all of our listeners and encourage all of you to contact us at [email protected] with any feedback, tips for topics, or just to say hi. We're especially grateful to our listeners who contribute to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thenewsneverends Just like the news, you will never end.
#152: On a High Note (2021/8/16)
This is Dan (@DarnArckerman) and Peter (@petertariat), coming at you one more time. Thank you to all the fans, all the haters, all the Galaxy Brain Club members, all the guests, and all the friends. Glad I took a while to edit this so we could get in an opening montage on Afghanistan. And stick around for an Overtime on one Natalie Points!: www.patreon.com/thenewsneverends Links: Ay Sarbaza Yara (Oh Beloved Soldier) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vYY7mgYo4s Biden: “No circumstance” https://twitter.com/Indsamachar/status/1426894630629429250 CNN in Kabul https://twitter.com/RisboLensky/status/1427325882780225542 “Biden, you betrayed us” https://twitter.com/FordFischer/status/1427068995748995072 Blinken: “I don’t think it’s going to be something that happens from a Friday to a Monday.” https://twitter.com/alexsalvinews/status/1426882826088165377 Rick Rowley on Afghanistan https://www.democracynow.org/2011/3/3/us_apologizes_to_afghan_people_for Jimmy Dore on recent US bombings https://twitter.com/jimmy_dore/status/1425990539053178889 Technology and Values: The Energy Connection (1979) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jt0yx0pGXJ0 Theme song credit: "Robobozo" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
Aug 16, 2021
59 min
#151: Pokémon Go Home (2021/7/9)
Obamas-produced music, classical poetry, and post-colonial pokymans. What more could you want? Timestamps: 0:00: Ben Garrison and Don Quixote 24:06: Haiti 30:54: Pokémon Gyms Falling to the Taliban 48:40: We The People Links: Ben Garrison’s Quixotic Reality https://twitter.com/SwampCommunist/status/1413182237902839810 Gotta Catch Em All https://www.stripes.com/theaters/middle_east/2021-07-02/pokemon-go-bagram-troop-withdrawal-2027917.html Whoopi and Joe ended Apartheid https://twitter.com/brownblaze/status/1409562289397587968
Jul 9, 2021
1 hr 10 min
#150: Lindyman Creepypasta (2021/6/22)
We need a vacation from our leaders' vacations! Overtimes here!: www.patreon.com/thenewsneverends Links: On the need to invent NATO & Israel https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1404452816379338760 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYLNCcLfIkM Andrew Yang on the mentally ill https://twitter.com/JoshuaPotash/status/1405355835098910724 "Do not come" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5dxMmfM2_4 Harris with Lester Holt on the border https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omrMRP15q9M Libya / Syria https://twitter.com/PressTV/status/1404425980769456129 Theme song credit: "Robobozo" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
Jun 22, 2021
55 min
#149: From the River to the Tea (2021/5/28)
Biden's do-nothing presidency, Eve Fartlow, and, you guessed it, we go off on Jewish history. And the coming global population crash only on Overtime!: www.patreon.com/thenewsneverends Links: Neturei Karta demonstrator https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMecScvLJ/ Neturei Karta pic https://www.timesofisrael.com/extremist-rabbi-to-iran-website-israel-is-jewish-state-like-pork-is-jewish-food/ 2015 Nature article https://www.nature.com/news/engineered-bat-virus-stirs-debate-over-risky-research-1.18787?WT.mc_id=TWT_NatureNews The Squad delivered more money to the Capitol Police https://twitter.com/n_th_n_/status/1395542786355744770 Yasha Levine on Wiesel https://yasha.substack.com/p/elie-wiesels-israeli-propaganda-and-cda Levine on forced population transfers from USSR to Israel https://yasha.substack.com/p/part-three-zionists-palestinian-kidnappers-fbc Eve Fartlow https://www.tabletmag.com/sections/news/articles/the-social-media-pogrom Theme song credit: "Robobozo" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
May 28, 2021
1 hr 9 min
#148: Apartheid Israel or Free Palestine (2021/5/14)
On the 2021 assaults on Sheikh Jarrah, Al-Aqsa, Gaza, and all Palestinians. We actually have some Overtime this week!: www.patreon.com/thenewsneverends Links: Dammi Falastini https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7LE-8QQG2Y The US house thief in Palestine https://twitter.com/Marwa__Osman/status/1388592755862130688 Biden saying he doesn’t think it’s a serious overreaction https://twitter.com/CBSNews/status/1392900152726364165 Israeli assault on Gaza interrupts BBC interview https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w172xv52szf19m3 Abby Martin interviews everyday genocidal Israelis https://twitter.com/EmpireFiles/status/1393015740291162120 Biden’s spending more on Israel’s bombs than on climate change https://twitter.com/stephensemler/status/1391913135267844096?s=20 Sources on demographics https://twitter.com/ryepastrami/status/1391937181908938759 Victory Ice Cream https://twitter.com/AmiKaufman/status/1392531203442585607 Israelis celebrating fire from the Al-Aqsa compound https://twitter.com/AyOdeh/status/1391851115776466951 State Dept spox Ned Price https://twitter.com/TheNationalNews/status/1391873402709872646
May 14, 2021
1 hr 1 min
#147: Hikiko & Morty (2021/4/29)
On declining empire, markets, and population growth. Getchur Overtime here!: www.patreon.com/thenewsneverends Links: Biden address to Congress https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-AqSYODI-Y Harris scolds Guatemala https://twitter.com/dilemmv/status/1386879356924989440 Tom Lehrer: “What Ever Became of Hubert?” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C11ZNuVSBMU 1 in 5 homes bought by someone who never lives in them https://therealdeal.com/national/2021/04/05/investors-increasingly-compete-with-first-time-buyers-for-homes/
Apr 29, 2021
44 min
#146: New Deal of the Ages (2021/4/9)
We took a quick break, so we just strap on our 33rd-degree aprons to check in. Oh and there's actually an Overtime this week!: www.patreon.com/thenewsneverends Theme song credit: "Robobozo" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
Apr 9, 2021
50 min
#145: Switchin Them Positions Of Strength (2021/3/20)
Reporting live from Anchorage, Alaska, it's the Yang Jiechi fan club. From war on China to pogroms against Asian workers, the US has no idea what it is unleashing on the world. Next week I promise we'll have an Overtime!: www.patreon.com/thenewsneverends Links: ALASKA FULL VIDEO (except for Blinken’s censorship) https://www.c-span.org/video/?510091-1/secretary-blinken-chinese-foreign-minister-clash-meeting-anchorage-alaska 28:30 beginning translation Yang Jiechi calls out Blinken’s suppression of the press https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NszIE48KE_Y Josh Rogin on Skullduggery: “The U.S.-China Problem” https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-u-s-china-problem/id1333621434?i=1000512397965 Maura Moynihan on “communist China” https://twitter.com/HopClear/status/1371218321815662593 Biden calls Putin a “killer” and told him “I don’t think you have a soul” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfkCHLj5cfU Hua Chunying on how the American people “who should be liberated” https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/insurrection-at-capitol-draws-condemnation-across-the-globe Xi Jinping on “bored foreigners with full stomachs” https://newsvideo.su/video/1967168 Chevron NYT Donziger https://twitter.com/sdonziger/status/1372335577853431810?s=21 Sanctions before the Alaska summit https://news.antiwar.com/2021/03/17/us-sanctions-24-chinese-and-hong-kong-officials-ahead-of-talks/ More Maura Moynihan on Communist China https://twitter.com/carlzha/status/1372422671976198148?s=21 https://twitter.com/hopclear/status/1371218321815662593?s=21 Same day Radio Free Europe does Ukrainian Chinatowns propaganda https://twitter.com/MarkAmesExiled/status/1372231474397777925 "After cameras come back into the room: 'Is that the way that you had hoped to conduct this dialogue?' said Yang Jiechi. 'Well, I think we thought too well of the US. We thought that the US side will follow the necessary diplomatic protocols.'" https://twitter.com/kylieatwood/status/1372687415094169607 Putin wishes Biden “health” https://twitter.com/SkyNews/status/1372578002144530437 Surkov calls Biden a mothafucka https://twitter.com/27khv/status/1372525921765326848 The Pentagon in Wuhan https://unlimitedhangout.com/2020/03/reports/bats-gene-editing-and-bioweapons-recent-darpa-experiments-raise-concerns-amid-coronavirus-outbreak/ Theme song credit: "Robobozo" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
Mar 20, 2021
55 min
#144: Cuomosexual Predators (2021/3/5)
The butcher of Albany isn't the only Democrat out for blood this week. We talk the death of the $15 minimum wage, the ever-expanding child immigrant concentration camps, and the Democrats' plan to lose forever. And we do some successful propagandizing on Overtime! www.patreon.com/thenewsneverends Links: "Open Biden!" https://twitter.com/shoe0nhead/status/1367641330025967624 Joy Behar says ignore it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Hb5MkwxIgg Randy Rainbow's "ANDY" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Kydr2a7Uy4 Trump on the next Republican president https://www.rev.com/blog/transcripts/donald-trump-cpac-2021-speech-transcript Biden kills checks for 17 million https://theweek.com/speedreads/970024/joe-biden-just-yanked-away-stimulus-checks-from-17-million-americans
Mar 5, 2021
45 min
#143: Why Did We Bomb Syria? (2021/2/28)
Pandemic's over, concentration camps are opening, minimum wage will never go up, the Great Satan is bombing Syria, it's 2017 again, and all's right in the world. Just chilling on Overtime: www.patreon.com/thenewsneverends Links: Witness at the Border facebook group https://www.facebook.com/groups/339957239906299 Aldea - People’s Justice Center https://aldeapjc.org/ “Well you should vote for Trump!” https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=687577748432174 The NYT account on Syria and the Guardians of the Blood https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/25/us/politics/biden-syria-airstrike-iran.html Aaton Maté on the OPCW leaks https://www.thenation.com/article/world/opcw-leaks-syria/ Syrian “Civil” War Map: https://syriancivilwarmap.com/ Theme song credit: "Robobozo" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/
Mar 1, 2021
57 min
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