E316: The Bovine of Western Civilization
This Wreckage
Sean KB and AP Andy
4.2 • 980 Ratings
🗓️ 10 December 2025
⏱️ 81 minutes
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Summary
NEWS EP! We cover the true origins or the Warner Brothers buyout, Trump's new National Security manifesto, the death of the West, and say farewell to Asad Haider.
Sign up on patreon to hear the fun half!! in which we discuss Death by Lightning, a miniseries about James Garfield and American crankery: http://patreon.com/c/thiswreckage
Referenced articles:
https://www.endnotes.org.uk/palabre/angels-and-demons
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/06/world/europe/trump-europe-strategy-document.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share https://www.ft.com/content/953635f0-4b87-41a4-a087-e8b1d71470b6?accessToken=zwAGRXR0h59AkdOVNjXwS4dBpNOgh-ix1xRwtg.MEYCIQCiIhSoXOIILWLPg-7ZjoHpI708TFPiQa5dgUpQcYcNOAIhAIMOrTTL9rQQWQgwir0APRqS6mXhN5TCt2yC234GZ2rX&sharetype=gift&token=30118284-df0a-41b5-bea7-ddfbb92fc2e9
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/07/us/politics/biden-immigration-trump.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
Asad Haider's writing:
https://viewpointmag.com/author/asad-haider/
Our interview with Asad from 2020: https://www.patreon.com/posts/36803245
Song: Justice - Civilization
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | What's up, Sean? What's up, Andy? I'm here. I'm queer, so deal with it. All right. This sounds good. Yeah, it sounds good. You're queer. That's like a... Coming out of the closet. Finally. Jesus Christ. My beard's in the other room. I guess you want to tell her? I'm a little delirious, I will say. |
| 0:22.8 | It's a cold one out there today, isn't it, buddy? |
| 0:25.4 | Did you ever see the guy Bear Grills? |
| 0:27.4 | No, it's one of your gay friends? |
| 0:29.2 | No. |
| 0:30.1 | I wish. |
| 0:31.1 | I would befriend him. |
| 0:32.6 | No, he's like, he's Australian. |
| 0:35.2 | I think he's Australian and he's like an adventure type guy. |
| 0:38.8 | He's like Steve Irwin, but he always deals with extreme circumstances. |
| 0:43.0 | He's like, oh, it's so cold out right now, blah, blah, blah. |
| 0:45.8 | I feel like Bear Grills, like a queer Bear Grills. |
| 0:50.3 | I'm here. |
| 0:51.5 | I'm queer. |
| 0:52.6 | I'm Bear Grills. |
| 0:53.5 | So he's a guy who just goes out in the cold and complains |
| 0:57.3 | about it all the time. Yeah, he like walks through the frozen tundra and he's like, oh, it's so cold. |
| 1:03.1 | And he'd be like, the last thing you'd want to do is fall into a giant crevasse. And then he falls |
| 1:08.3 | into a giant crevasse. I'm surprised you've never seen this. |
| 1:12.0 | You should try hibernating. |
| 1:13.8 | All right. |
| 1:14.5 | So we're going to do a news episode today. |
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