Music:

Southside by Lee Rosevere - Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution License

The Upstream podcast is back, baby. And we're ready to try to remember our favorite movies, TV shows, and memes of 2018, a year that felt very long indeed. Like Toni Collette in Hereditary, sometimes we just had to scream-face it out.

Speaking of Hereditary, our esteemed panel will discuss that remarkable and consuming film, which had a lot of us reading the Wikipedia entry before heading to the theater. It was a great year for horror, despite baffling arguments to the contrary: We also discuss The Haunting of Hill House, Suspiria, Annihilation, and The Terror.

We didn't have enough time to get to all the TV shows we liked this year, but we do discuss two extremes: The Good Place and Killing Eve. Plus, we look back on the meme-ing of Phantom Thread and a year bookended by Black Panther and Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse.

Join us!

Music:

'Late Night Tales' and 'Credit Roll' by Lee Rosevere
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'RetroFuture Nasty' by Kevin MacLeod - incompetech.com

'Last Call' by Lee Rosevere

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We like to have fun on We're All Gonna Die, but this week we talk about a more serious topic—the human element of the immigration debate in the country.

On today's pod, the crew talks with Christine Bolaños about her story regarding Melvin Griselda Cruz-Lopez, a mother trying to see her daughter again while being held in an immigrant detention center in Texas.

The story, which you can check out here, is gripping and heart-breaking as it details the struggle Griselda has faced in trying to see her daughter, Samantha, and her case for asylum.

Bolaños tells the team about the process of writing the story, tackling such sensitive matters, and more.

Closing music: "Curiosity" by Lee Rosevere

Music:

'Jazzy Frenchy' by BenSound.com

'Whose Life Did I Rob?' by Easy Cap

You probably already know that Brett Kavanaugh was credibly accused of sexual assault during his confirmation hearing for the Supreme Court. But did you also know that he’s decided multiple court cases in favor of government surveillance and communicated repeatedly with John Yoo, the so-called “architect of warrantless wiretapping?"

Alan Butler, senior counsel at the Electronic Privacy Information Center, joins the gang to unpack it all for you. Plus, we have Gabe Gundacker, the voice of Donald Trump, Jr. and Stephen Miller on Showtime’s Our Cartoon President!

All of us at We're All Gonna Die love chatting about memes each week.

And we'll be honest—we're usually not great at talking about visual photos on a podcast.

But fear not!

This week the We're All Gonna Die team talks about some of the biggest memes that have come out ahead of the 2018 midterms and examine how they are emblematic of themes this election cycle has shown.

Do you think Hot Beto, the New York Times election needle, and the trick clickbait voter registration memes are some of the best? We do, and we think they have a lot to say about this year's midterm elections.

Listen to our previous episodes and subscribe to We’re All Gonna Die on iTunes.

READ MORE:

• Trump’s wild ‘I will always capitalize Country’ claim is meme gold
• Telecom companies sue Vermont over its net neutrality protections
• Trump unceremoniously unfollows Michael Cohen on Twitter

"Jazzy Frenchy" by BenSound.com - Creative Commons Attribution License.

The Supreme Court just confirmed a nominee who will likely be terrible for net neutrality, among other things, but fear not! We bring you glad tidings in the form of return guest Evan Greer, deputy director of Fight for the Future.

Join the gang as we chat with Greer about the California net neutrality bill she calls, “badass,” net neutrality in the midterms, and the future of the internet on a state and national level.

Plus, memes of the week!

Music:

"Jazzy Frenchy" by BenSound.com - Creative Commons Attribution License.

Fake news has plagued the political landscape since the 2016 election, and no one seems to have figured out how to defeat it. But we can clown on it, which is precisely what guest Justin Hook, a comedy writer based in LA, has done with his Fake News Generator. Choose an image, a headline, a brief description, and a real-enough-sounding website, and share extremely dumb fake news with your friends!

Hook talks to the gang about his project, and whether we’ll ever figure out how to deal with real fake news. Plus, memes of the week.

Music:

"Jazzy Frenchy" by BenSound.com - Creative Commons Attribution License.

This week on We're All Gonna Die, the team tackles serious issues—like family separation–to infinitely less important topics like bagels.

First, we chat with Samantha Grasso, the Daily Dot's IRL reporter, about her conversation with Alisson Ximena Valencia Madrid–one of the 2,600 children separated form their family as part of the Trump administration's policy.

In addition, the team chats about net neutrality, Europe’s Copyright Directive, and Cynthia Nixon's bagel order.

Music:

"Jazzy Frenchy" by BenSound.com - Creative Commons Attribution License.

Ooh, y’all, it’s been a spicy one. Between Senate hearings and anonymous op-eds, the political world has been all a-Twitter. I absolutely intended that pun.

In this week’s ep, we break it all down for you: what happened at those social media hearings? Did Alex Jones and Marco Rubio get into a fight? Does Jack Dorsey have a nose ring? How do we feel about Colin Kaepernick’s Nike ad? And, more importantly, the memes!

And Jesus, what’s going on with these Kavanaugh hearings?

Plus, the gang puts in their best guesses for who wrote that anonymous op-ed. Is it Kellyanne Conway? Jim Mattis? MIke Pence? Melania? We don’t get any closer to the truth!

Music:

"Hip Hop" by DJ Street - Creative Commons Attribution License.

"Jazzy Frenchy" by BenSound.com - Creative Commons Attribution License.