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Critical Wade Theory

I"ll talk about everything from politics to entertainment and philosophy. I"m also a part-time entertainment writer and working-class from the UP of Michigan, so that might come up occasionally. Oh, and I make weird experimental music and sometimes host a college radio show.

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00:11:57

🎙️CWT614: The Shins — Quiet Songs That Changed Indie...

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2026/01/11

If you were coming of age in the early 2000s and even slightly tuned into indie music, there’s a good chance The Shins found you before you ever went looking for them.They’re an American indie rock band known for melodic, introspective songs and sharp, literate lyrics. Music that doesn’t shout for attention, but somehow stays with you. The kind of songs that feel personal, even when you can’t quite explain why.

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00:07:38

🎙️CWT613: The Illusion of Balance

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2026/01/10

We like to believe our systems work — that justice is blind, democracy is fair, and truth has a fighting chance...Main photo credit: Origin unknown (if you know the original source, go ahead and let me know).

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00:24:43

CWT612: Right-wingers Want To Be My Guest

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2026/01/09

My podcast is not very successful by any means. I can say it is gaining momentum, on YouTube, but it's still not a huge show. Nevertheless, I keep receiving e-mails from right-wingers who want to be my guest. I have decided I don't want to platform them, and I don't have guests on as often as I used to anyway.Still, this shows you that right-wingers are confident, and that they want to get their message out as much, as often, as possible. I only RARELY receive ANY interest from random

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00:50:06

Dimwits, Dipsh*ts, Dufuses, and Dullards (E. 52); ICE...

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2026/01/08

The episode explores a recent ICE shooting of a woman in Minnesota, then shifts to Mark Burnett’s role in shaping Donald Trump’s rise as a media figure. From there, I analyze the influence of Burnett’s wife, Roma Downey, focusing on her role in producing Christian media. The argument is that Downey’s soft, “New Age–inflected” Christian messaging may function as a gateway that draws in audiences who wouldn’t normally engage with overtly right-wing content, even if her work is not explicitly

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00:20:12

CWT611: New Year's Resolution / After We Fell (2021)...

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2026/01/05

Today I'm talking about After We Fell, the 2021 romantic drama and the third installment in the After franchise. If you’ve made it this far into the series, you already know what kind of ride you’re signing up for. Big emotions, messy relationships, and a lot of arguing in nice-looking rooms.

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00:12:05

CWT610: 'Homegrown' Director Michael Premo on His...

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2026/01/02

[NOTE: I will upload a fuller video of this, if there is a demand for it, with "demand" meaning if even 1 person asks for it.]In his latest documentary work, Homegrown, filmmaker Michael Premo turns his camera away from institutions and figureheads and instead focuses on the everyday people who became wrapped up in the events surrounding January 6. In this conversation with me (for VENTS Magazine online, and for this podcast), Premo talks about responsibility, radicalization, ethics, and

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00:08:57

🎙️CWT609: The Divinyls – Underworld (1996): Darkness...

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2025/12/29

If you think of the Divinyls purely through the lens of “I Touch Myself,” you'll have an idea of what this album might provide — even if the lyrics don't unsettle prudes as much as their hit about handling the bearded clam.

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00:20:03

🎙️CWT608: 'Highway 61 Revisited': Dylan's Song,...

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2025/12/28

Released in 1965 as the title track of Dylan’s album Highway 61 Revisited, the song stands as one of the clearest statements of his break from acoustic folk into electric blues-rock. This wasn’t a gentle evolution. It was a confrontation — with tradition, with authority, and with the idea that music should behave itself.

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00:15:56

🎙️CWT607: High Voltage Festival

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2025/12/26

Remembering a rock festival...that I never went to.

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00:34:20

Dimwits, Dipsh*ts, Dufuses, and Dullards (E. 51);...

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2025/12/25

What happens when a country hands the keys to a werewolf? More broadly, I discuss Latin America's far-right shift.

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00:13:22

🎙️CWT606: Hunger in the Gingerbread House: Teeth,...

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2025/12/24

When we think about fairy tales, most of us picture the cleaned-up versions. Soft edges. Clear morals. Princesses who suffer quietly until someone saves them. These are the Victorian-era revisions many of us grew up with, stories that have been sanded down to feel safe, instructive, and polite.But that’s not where these stories began...

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00:13:12

🎙️CWT605: 'Romancing the Stone' by Eddy Grant MUSIC...

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2025/12/24

Today, I'm talking about a song that lives at the crossroads of pop music and movie history. It’s called “Romancing the Stone”, and it comes from Eddy Grant in 1984. It was also made to promote a film of the same name.

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00:08:23

🎙️CWT604: Trump Parasitically Latches onto Kennedy...

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2025/12/23

There's a lot I could take about regarding Trump, like the Epstein files. But today I'm talking about a building.But really, I'm talking about power.And the line between law and ego.

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00:17:38

VIDEO: Interview w/ Myles Kennedy of Alter Bridge /...

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2025/12/22

A fan of Myles Kennedy asked me to post the full video version, so here it is! Now you can see my goofy face, in addition ti hearing my goofy voice.

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00:11:53

🎙️CWT603: Ty Segall (2017) ALBUM REVIEW

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2025/12/21

Welcome back. Today we’re talking about Ty Segall — the 2017 self-titled album by Ty Segall. Not the first one. The second. And that detail actually matters.

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00:08:03

🎙️CWT602: Front-Loaded Teeth and How Predators Use Them!

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2025/12/20

Today, I'm talking about a surprisingly common pattern in predators, both living and extinct. It’s a dental setup where teeth are concentrated toward the front of the jaws, while the back of the mouth has fewer teeth or none at all.Also, what's a key difference between alligators and crocodiles? It's all right here!IMAGE CREDIT: Some joke on Reddit. Not sure of the original source.

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00:11:24

🎙️CWT601: Highway 61 Revisited — Dylan Goes Electric

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2025/12/20

Today we’re digging into Highway 61 Revisited, the 1965 Bob Dylan album that marked the moment he threw himself fully into electric rock. If you know even a little Dylan, you know this is the record that split audiences, rewired songwriting, and helped move popular music into a new era.

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00:17:29

🎙️CWT600: Education Faces a War on Science

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2025/12/19

Today, I want to talk about something that, at first glance, looks like a routine university course offering. But somehow, it ends up tangled in a much bigger fight. A fight over science, education, and who knowledge is supposed to be for.I will also discuss how outrage against the course ties into a broader war on science and education overall...IMAGE: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. swam in Washington, D.C.'s Rock Creek, a waterway known to be contaminated with high levels of bacteria and fecal matter

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00:24:27

Dimwits, Dipsh*ts, Dufuses, and Dullards (E. 50);...

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2025/12/18

In this episode, Trump urges Americans to keep waiting for his glorious golden age benefits to roll in. I also discuss the co-author of Art of the Deal, and how, despite helping Trump significantly image-wise, he went on to become a critic. I also talk about a former Disney CEO.

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00:17:37

🎙️CWT599: Interview w/ Myles Kennedy of Alter Briidge...

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2025/12/18

Full, live video version available if there's enough demand. Personally, I don't need to see my goofy face (hearing my goofy voice is enough). BUT if enough people out there wat to see the full video version, let me know in the comments.I semi-apologize for the image quality of the main photo, but we were using Zoom so what are you gonna do?Anyway, here I talk to Myles Kennedy of Alter Bridge / Slash featuring Myles Kennedy and the Conspirators. This was originally for an interview article,

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