Hold No Heroes

Hold No Heroes


Latest Episodes

Episode 12: Cancelled Culture feat. Devan Laurent
July 13, 2020

Joining me this week is friend and fellow shitposter, Devan Laurent, to talk about cancel culture and that weird Harper's Magazine letter decrying it.  Devan's twitter is @devanmiller and his blog is https://nowisthetimeofmonsters.wordpress.com/

Episode 11: Back to School With Professor X
July 07, 2020

This episode we are joined by my college History professor, Professor X, as we talk about the "isms" we adopt, whether by choice or necessity, and how both of us ended up taking a lot of things for granted in our academic years and how we came to unpack t

Black Lives Matter
July 07, 2020

A little explanation for why the "Political Podcast" up and fucking vanished during the most important protests in a century.  In Short: I was waiting to make it perfect and, lo and behold, perfect never came. 

Episode 10: Halo Darkness, My Old Friend feat. Matt Acuña
May 25, 2020

Twitch streamer, Halo fan, and my good friend, Matt Acuña, stops by the pod to teach me a thing or two about some Halo lore. Matt's Twitch channel: https://www.twitch.tv/darthmathis

Episode 09: What Is There To Like About Superheroes?
April 18, 2020

There's something to be said about being able to articulate why it is you like what you like and I think the things I like about superhero narratives are what lead me to become a leftist.  *Mild Spoiler Warning* for plot elements of old seasons of Arrow a

Episode 08: Mere Christianity feat. Manfred DeVox
March 09, 2020

You could say that religion was the first fandom. This week I have my good friend Manfred DeVox on the podcast to talk about how we both started out as kinda conservative students on our way to becoming pastors, took wildly divergent paths, and somehow st

Episode 07: "Electability" Doesn't Mean What You Think It Does feat. Leo Cookman
March 02, 2020

Hold No Heroes goes international as I get a chance to talk with writer and young Jeremy Corbyn impersonator, Leo Cookman, about his article "What Is Electability?" and why a word that has such an obvious meaning seems to have many hidden facets.  If

Episode 06: Dog Day Online
February 05, 2020

It's 48 hours after the Iowa caucus and, while we can all agree than Bernie Sanders won, the question on everyone's lips is: Will you vote blue no matter who? That's right. It's everybody's FAVORITE part of the news cycle, where we ask the people with pri

Episode 05: Every Silver Lining has a Mushroom Cloud feat. Ken Culver
January 20, 2020

Remember, like, 10 days ago when we were all pretty sure that our dumbshit president stumbled ass-first into a war with Iran? Well, I do. And, my good friend, Ken Culver and I used it as a launching point(pardon the usage) to talk about heavy topics and t

Episode 04: The Real Villains are the Friends We Made Along the Way feat. Stevie Foxette & Jake Kilroy (Part 2)
December 02, 2019

I'm still figuring out this whole "podcasting" thing. This here episode is part 2 of "Richard didn't plan well enough and recorded too much" where I introduce Jake and Stevie to a few villains from pop culture that might have been right the whole time. We