Whatever Happened to Pizza at McDonald’s?
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A program hosted by journalist/activist/educator Brian Thompson, author of the bestselling book "How to Be an Investigative Journalist".
If President Trump can bring back performing fellatio on Bill Clinton, McDonald’s can bring back pizza.
November 14, 2025 at 8:53 PM
If President Trump can bring back performing fellatio on Bill Clinton, McDonald’s can bring back pizza.
A stunning and disturbing invasion of privacy.
Scientists have extracted the oldest RNA molecules out of a wooly mammoth, gaining a snapshot into the processes at work in the extinct mammal's body just before it died. n.pr/4patABW
Scientists pull ancient RNA from a wooly mammoth's body
Scientists have extracted the oldest RNA molecules out of a wooly mammoth, gaining a snapshot into the processes at work in the extinct mammal's body just before it died.
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November 14, 2025 at 6:19 PM
A stunning and disturbing invasion of privacy.
I have heard from multiple sources that President Trump is putting in an emergency FedEx Office order to make visual aids for tonight’s Oval Office address explaining the difference between pedophilia and ephebophilia.
November 12, 2025 at 5:51 PM
I have heard from multiple sources that President Trump is putting in an emergency FedEx Office order to make visual aids for tonight’s Oval Office address explaining the difference between pedophilia and ephebophilia.
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It's so cold out.
Yet I must leave the warmth of my home.
I must retrieve today's Asbury Park Press, so I can explain today's Ziggy to @pizzaatmcds.bsky.social.
This is the wisecrackin' albatross around my neck.
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Yet I must leave the warmth of my home.
I must retrieve today's Asbury Park Press, so I can explain today's Ziggy to @pizzaatmcds.bsky.social.
This is the wisecrackin' albatross around my neck.
Learn more by downloading THE DAILY ZIG wherever you download podcasts.
November 12, 2025 at 1:08 PM
It's so cold out.
Yet I must leave the warmth of my home.
I must retrieve today's Asbury Park Press, so I can explain today's Ziggy to @pizzaatmcds.bsky.social.
This is the wisecrackin' albatross around my neck.
Learn more by downloading THE DAILY ZIG wherever you download podcasts.
Yet I must leave the warmth of my home.
I must retrieve today's Asbury Park Press, so I can explain today's Ziggy to @pizzaatmcds.bsky.social.
This is the wisecrackin' albatross around my neck.
Learn more by downloading THE DAILY ZIG wherever you download podcasts.
I recall FBI director Kash Patel, in reference to the death of professional teenager debater Charlie Kirk, using the phrase “I’ll see you in Valhalla.” It seems many such men have turned to Nordic paganism instead of Christianity because they believe loving Jesus “H.” Christ is too effeminate.
Hegseth: "We don't need to be a military of beardos anymore. Do you know how many troops claim to be Nordic Pagan? No, suddenly it's become this real fake religious affiliation inside the Pentagon where troops came to be Nordic Pagan so they can grow a beard and nobody challenges them on it."
November 12, 2025 at 4:12 PM
I recall FBI director Kash Patel, in reference to the death of professional teenager debater Charlie Kirk, using the phrase “I’ll see you in Valhalla.” It seems many such men have turned to Nordic paganism instead of Christianity because they believe loving Jesus “H.” Christ is too effeminate.
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The books:
Jack Vance's THE LANGUAGES OF PAO (1958)
Fredric Brown's MARTIANS, GO HOME (1955)
I planned to discuss Philip Jose Farmer's THE GREEN ODYSSEY (1957) and forgot! Why? Because I was too busy self-flogging, obviously! (We'll save it for the next hodgepodge.)
youtu.be/xdZ9RbzOm-U
Jack Vance's THE LANGUAGES OF PAO (1958)
Fredric Brown's MARTIANS, GO HOME (1955)
I planned to discuss Philip Jose Farmer's THE GREEN ODYSSEY (1957) and forgot! Why? Because I was too busy self-flogging, obviously! (We'll save it for the next hodgepodge.)
youtu.be/xdZ9RbzOm-U
Vintage Paperback SF Hodgepodge: RGBIB 508
YouTube video by Scott Bradfield
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November 11, 2025 at 10:49 PM
The books:
Jack Vance's THE LANGUAGES OF PAO (1958)
Fredric Brown's MARTIANS, GO HOME (1955)
I planned to discuss Philip Jose Farmer's THE GREEN ODYSSEY (1957) and forgot! Why? Because I was too busy self-flogging, obviously! (We'll save it for the next hodgepodge.)
youtu.be/xdZ9RbzOm-U
Jack Vance's THE LANGUAGES OF PAO (1958)
Fredric Brown's MARTIANS, GO HOME (1955)
I planned to discuss Philip Jose Farmer's THE GREEN ODYSSEY (1957) and forgot! Why? Because I was too busy self-flogging, obviously! (We'll save it for the next hodgepodge.)
youtu.be/xdZ9RbzOm-U
This program features a cameo appearance by my mail order son Bob Woodward “Woody” Bernstein-Thompson.
The latest free-wheelin' Daily Zig features two genuinely funny comics, then what might be Tom Wilson II's most baffling works in his entire career. Zig-it-up!
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11/6/25-11/9/25
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November 10, 2025 at 10:33 PM
This program features a cameo appearance by my mail order son Bob Woodward “Woody” Bernstein-Thompson.
My account was deleted from that application because their moderators determined my bodily person contains more than one drop of (their words) “Jewish blood”, but I will look into this.
@pizzaatmcds.bsky.social are you aware of McDonalds’s recent questiom/threat on The Thing App? x.com/mcdonalds/st...
McDonald's on X: "bring back ________ before 11.19.26" / X
bring back ________ before 11.19.26
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November 10, 2025 at 6:33 PM
My account was deleted from that application because their moderators determined my bodily person contains more than one drop of (their words) “Jewish blood”, but I will look into this.
Others prefer The Onion headlines that are jokes meant to make readers laugh, but personally I enjoy ones like these that provoke a sad smirk, a single clap, and a solemn nod of agreement.
November 10, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Others prefer The Onion headlines that are jokes meant to make readers laugh, but personally I enjoy ones like these that provoke a sad smirk, a single clap, and a solemn nod of agreement.
May I please have your attention? I have a short story in the latest issue of the fine literary journal The Raleigh Review. It is about an accident-prone small town Louisiana sheriff’s deputy. You may purchase the issue from your favorite local bookseller or here: raleighreview.org/print-issues...
November 7, 2025 at 12:38 AM
May I please have your attention? I have a short story in the latest issue of the fine literary journal The Raleigh Review. It is about an accident-prone small town Louisiana sheriff’s deputy. You may purchase the issue from your favorite local bookseller or here: raleighreview.org/print-issues...
I would guess around 1987 he played the original The Legend of Zelda at a Nintendo demo kiosk in a Montgomery Ward.
Do you think Ziggy has played Zelda
November 6, 2025 at 10:02 PM
I would guess around 1987 he played the original The Legend of Zelda at a Nintendo demo kiosk in a Montgomery Ward.
Interesting. I always thought these were children’s games where you press a button to make the little elf boy swing his sword.
History matters in Zelda games. They imagine wars as multi-generational efforts where battles of the past set up the victories of the future. Hyrule Warriors: Age of Imprisonment makes that explicit, even if its thin action doesn’t feel terribly warlike. My review. www.polygon.com/hyrule-warri...
Hyrule Warriors: Age of Imprisonment puts the Zelda timeline to good use
The new Zelda spin-off understands that history has always mattered in Hyrule
www.polygon.com
November 6, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Interesting. I always thought these were children’s games where you press a button to make the little elf boy swing his sword.
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Career highlight! This summer I went to Fraunces Tavern with Ken Burns to talk about American history. That interview is now live at @vanityfair.com
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Ken Burns Knows Who Won the American Revolution: “Ne’er-Do-Wells, Felons, and Immigrants”
“I vowed after ‘The Civil War’ not to do any more war films,” says the master documentarian. “It hurt too much.” Lucky for us, he couldn’t keep his promise—paving the way for The American Revolution...
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November 5, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Career highlight! This summer I went to Fraunces Tavern with Ken Burns to talk about American history. That interview is now live at @vanityfair.com
www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/st...
www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/st...
I am headed to the White House today with 753 sacks of barely used Quarters Pounder with Cheese to “grease the wheels” re: my bid for this corporation.
Pizza Hut for sale? Parent company Yum! Brands exploring 'strategic options'
Pizza Hut for sale? Parent company Yum! Brands exploring 'strategic options'
Yum! Brands, the parent company of Taco Bell and KFC, may sell its Pizza Hut brand, which has nearly 20,000 restaurants worldwide.
bit.ly
November 4, 2025 at 7:41 PM
I am headed to the White House today with 753 sacks of barely used Quarters Pounder with Cheese to “grease the wheels” re: my bid for this corporation.
RIP Penis Cheney
November 4, 2025 at 3:52 PM
RIP Penis Cheney
There are two important public services in this episode. The usual public service of Ziggy recaps and a new public service warning about the risk of vomiting that comes from tending to a home fireplace.
A new DAILY ZIG, our longest yet, in which I explain how I made myself throw up.
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October 31, 2025 at 4:57 PM
There are two important public services in this episode. The usual public service of Ziggy recaps and a new public service warning about the risk of vomiting that comes from tending to a home fireplace.
I enjoyed this film because, like Godard, I too am so advanced artistically that I do not have to work more than one hour per day.
NOUVELLE VAGUE is the origin story of Jean-Luc Godard, and, in a way, of Richard Linklater himself.
Even more importantly, it’s a manual for what he hopes will be a fresh wave of talent storming the shore any minute. (I’m counting on it.)
www.latimes.com/entertainmen...
Even more importantly, it’s a manual for what he hopes will be a fresh wave of talent storming the shore any minute. (I’m counting on it.)
www.latimes.com/entertainmen...
Review: Made to inspire young artists to break the rules, the fizzy 'Nouvelle Vague' shows how it's done
Richard Linklater zips back to re-create the shoot of Jean-Luc Godard's scrappy low-budget "Breathless," producing a primer on how to go your own way.
www.latimes.com
October 29, 2025 at 8:23 PM
I enjoyed this film because, like Godard, I too am so advanced artistically that I do not have to work more than one hour per day.
I doubt Mr. Mamdani will have much impact on what the women of New York City wear, but it is true that after Mayor Giuliani was elected, many women began styling their hair in combovers.
So here's Andrew Cuomo reacting to Maria Bartiromo wondering if Mamdani will "change the look of New York" and have Muslim women "completely covered up," telling her that Mamdani "doesn't understand New York culture" because he has "dual citizenship" and "he's a citizen of Uganda."
October 29, 2025 at 4:50 PM
I doubt Mr. Mamdani will have much impact on what the women of New York City wear, but it is true that after Mayor Giuliani was elected, many women began styling their hair in combovers.
Then perhaps it would behoove him to be more accepting of their homosexuality.
Hegseth refuses to meet US troops with beards during South Korea trip: report
Hegseth refuses to meet US troops with beards during South Korea trip: report
Hegseth refuses to meet US troops with beards during South Korea trip: report
www.independent.co.uk
October 28, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Then perhaps it would behoove him to be more accepting of their homosexuality.
Perhaps I am naive, but I always assumed there were some people who are not and have never been Nazis.
October 21, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Perhaps I am naive, but I always assumed there were some people who are not and have never been Nazis.
Thank you, but I will not be reading this as I do not believe it is prudent to “play God”.
When it comes to rice and pasta, dietitians recommend eating brown or whole grain because they're more nutritious. But you can create a super nutrient in white rice and white pasta. Here's the trick.
There's a secret superfood in white rice and pasta: Here's how to unlock it
When it comes to rice and pasta, dietitians recommend eating brown or whole grain because they're more nutritious. But you can create a super nutrient in white rice and white pasta. Here's the trick.
n.pr
October 19, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Thank you, but I will not be reading this as I do not believe it is prudent to “play God”.
There are dozens of cars lined up for blocks to offer their honks of support as I hold my No Kings sign here in the McDonald’s drive-thru lane.
October 18, 2025 at 7:07 PM
There are dozens of cars lined up for blocks to offer their honks of support as I hold my No Kings sign here in the McDonald’s drive-thru lane.
More like Drew Well.
Drew Struzan, the King of the Movie Poster, Has Died
Drew Struzan, the King of the Movie Poster, Has Died
The beloved artist, who illustrated iconic posters for 'Star Wars', 'Indiana Jones', 'Back to the Future', and more, was 78.
gizmodo.com
October 14, 2025 at 5:59 PM
More like Drew Well.
Some personal news: I am in final negotiations to take over hosting duties for the program “WTF”. There is only some minor disagreement about the title. The current owners would like it to be “WTF with Brian Thompson” but I prefer to maintain continuity by changing my name to Marc Maron.
October 14, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Some personal news: I am in final negotiations to take over hosting duties for the program “WTF”. There is only some minor disagreement about the title. The current owners would like it to be “WTF with Brian Thompson” but I prefer to maintain continuity by changing my name to Marc Maron.
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October 13, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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