Explain It To Jamie

This week we're super excited to bring back the ALT-RIGHT SAFARI! This time around we have a couple of real doozies, including some terrible advice for men about how to be friends with other men, a bizarre tendency of Donald Trump supporters to defend anyone at all if it helps them hate muslims, and the single worst proposition for modern US politics we've ever heard! You don't want to miss the wonders that await you on...the ALT-RIGHT SAFARI!

This week we are extremely excited to welcome sexual health maven Steph Baptist back on to the show! Join us as we unpack some of the terrible lessons that we learned in middle school about how all of our bits squish together! Yuck, am I right?

In this week's bonus episode, we dig in to the upcoming British election. Tune in to learn who's running, what the main issues are, and why everyone says that the Prime Minister wants to put a tax on dementia! NOTE: We had to reupload this episode because Richard was a dummy and made a mistake with the theme song volume at the end! Thanks to all who pointed out his shameful mistake.

This week, Jamie wants to learn more about the news stories he's heard about Chechnya persecuting gay men. Why are they being targeted? Where is Chechnya? Does its president have an instagram I can check out?

This week's bonus episode is a double dip on the French Election and the last minute firing of FBI director James Comey! Plus, what are Richard and Jamie having for lunch?? You can find the supercut of Jamie saying "wow" on our facebook group at https://www.facebook.com/ExplainItToJamie/

This week we tackle a topic requested by one of our listeners and explain what the heck is going on in Venezuela. Why are there huge protests? What the hell is the exchange rate there? Why is the media so concerned about if people can buy diapers or not? We're also super happy to welcome theatre artist Ximena Huizi on to the show this week! She actually lived through this history and can describe it a lot better than google can, just sayin'. If you're looking for a way you can help those afflicted by the crisis in Venezuela, the gofundme campaign that we talk about in the episode can be found at https://www.gofundme.com/envio-de-insumos-protestas-vzla. Every bit helps so don't be shy!

In this week's bonus episode, we learn a little bit about the Obamacare repeal and replacement bill that passed Congress last week. SPOILER ALERT: this bill sucks. We also did a sneaksies and recorded it the same day that we had Anthony MacMahon and Thomas McKechnie on for the Communism episode so there are BONUS GUESTS as well!

This week, Jamie and Richard learn about Communism! Who is Karl Marx? Are there still communist countries? Did we learn all we needed to know about communism in middle school? We are incredibly excited to welcome longtime friends of the show Anthony MacMahon and Thomas McKechnie on as our guests! They've been a huge part of making this podcast happen and now we're thrilled to have their voices on the show and their beards in our studio.

In Episode 14, we talk about the Canadian government's plan to legalize marijuana! Will society collapse? Who gets to sell it? If a cop kisses you and you taste like weed, can they make you take a blood test? The answers await within!

We interrupt our regular schedule of bonus episodes to bring you a mini-episode on the 2017 French presidential election! Is a Macron something you buy at a bakery? Is Melenchon a kind of music? I thought the French word for pen was "stylo", why am I hearing so much about "Le Pen" now? Don't be caught snoozing when this election explodes back into the headlines on Sunday, May 7: listen to our primer and your friends will call you a regular old Frenchy...French...information....knower.

In this Very Special Episode of Explain it To Jamie, the boys take off their Politics Hats and put on their Sexual Education Berets! We are extremely excited to welcome sexual health counsellor Stephanie Baptist on to the show to help us iron out all of the misconceptions about our genitals we've carried around since puberty. This is the first episode of a three-part series that we'll be continuing in the coming months, so please do leave us a comment or email us at explainittojamie@gmail.com if you have a question or something sex-related you'd like us to cover in the future!

In our second Double Dip episode, we revisit the FBI to talk about current events and address the single most-commented on mistake that we've ever had in an episode. What is it, you ask? CLICKBAIT CLICKBAIT YOU HAVE TO LISTEN TO IT!

This week, Jamie wants to know about Canada's Senate. What does it do, exactly? Why is it I only ever hear about it when a Senator is in the news for doing something horrible? If 105 rich people gather together in a room in Ottawa and nobody cares what they do, do they still get pensions when they retire? The answers await in this blood-pumping, sweaty, orgasmic, thrilling episode on Canada's Upper House!

We have a new format for our bonus episode this week: Whack-A-Mole! Jamie and Richard have found a thread on twitter that has a lot of truly horrid replies. Listen in as we bop the most horrible ones on the head and send them on their way! And make sure to check out our twitter account @ExplainJamie to see the tweets in the wild!

This week, Jamie wants to know about the FBI? What do they really want? Why does it sometimes seem like they're pro-Trump and sometimes seem like they're anti-Trump? Are they watching me type this write now? Did they know I was going to type it before I even typed it? Am...am I the FBI?

This week, Jamie wants to know about the Syrian Refugee crisis. Why do people care about it so much? Is it really that big a problem? Is Richard a google robot? Here's the link to the Belfast Telegraph article Richard mentions in the show. Read at your own peril: http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/environment/bangladesh-set-to-disappear-under-the-waves-by-the-end-of-the-century-28392995.html

In this Episode, Jamie wants to know who this funny German lady he's been hearing so much about is. Where did she come from? What does she believe? Why do the Germans call her "mommy"? Isn't that...isn't that really creepy? We also do a brief update on the Republicans Obamacare repeal and replacement (spoiler alert: it went real bad). Also, we thought it would be an incredible idea to eat a bowl of Cherry Blasters while we recorded this episode so you may hear a lot more weird mouth sound that normal. Sorry about that, or not sorry if you're some sort of mouth sound pervert.

This week in our bonus episode we're rolling out a sexy rebrand of our clarification episodes! Now we're calling them "Double Dip" episodes. Like we take the topic, and then we...we discuss it again. Like you do with a chicken nugget, or nacho, or...other...food item....but for a podcast. Yay! In this episode we finally discuss the Republican Obamacare replacement bill, and clarify a few things about privatization in the Canadian Health Care system. We also fix a couple of the things that Richard got wrong in the ISIS episode! If you haven't listened to Episode 6 on Obamacare and Episode 7 on ISIS you should definitely do that first. And if you have something about ANY of our episodes you want us to talk about on a future double dip, hit us up with a sweet comment or email us at explainittojamie at gmail dot com!

This week, Jamie reveals that he came up with the concept of a Universal Basic Income all by himself in high school, so we have him to thank for it. We also talk about why a UBI is something that both progressives and conservatives like (and why that's not a good thing), how our societies are going to pay for them, and what will happen when the animals finally unite against humanity to wage their brutal war against us.

The Alt-Right Safari is back! In this bonus episode we descend once more into the internet's darkest, foulest, most squarespace-based corners. We take a look at the platform of an insane person running for the Virginia state legislature, read a very bleak and weird thread on 4chan's /pol/ board, and get some terrible advice about the sexual marketplace from the dinguses at Return Of Kings. Join us as we gaze upon their works, ye normies, and despair!