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    Tank Riot

    Tank Riot is a never dull audio podcast that digs deep into the minds of Viktor, Sputnik, and Tor. Each podcast starts you on a winding audio journey with destinations such as Fritz Haber, Edward Bernays, William Henry Harrison, Woodrow Wilson, Hogan's Heroes, Star Wars: The Last Jedi, Stranger Things, CFAA, Spectre, The Martian, Pope Francis's Global Warming Encyclical, Vincent van Gogh, John Carpenter, Nick Drake, Ada Lovelace, Deep State, Blaxploitation Films, Spaghetti Westerns, John Wayne, the Midterm Elections, scientific method, Vikings, Jane Goodall, William Randolph Hearst, Marijuana Reform, Humphrey Bogart, Saudi Arabia, Lou Reed, The National Security Agency, Huey Long, Hyperloop, Quantum Leap, Orson Welles, Comic Strips, Libertarianism, MASH, Punk Rock, China, Eugene V. Debs, Vincent Price, Gerry Anderson, Motorcycle Movies, Frank Lloyd Wright, Howard Hughes, Open Source Software, Alan Turing, Ancient Aliens, Dr. Seuss, 120 Film, North Korea, The Marx Brothers, The War on Drugs, Albert Einstein, professional wrestling, The Space Race, Rupert Murdoch, Fox News, Link Wray, Nazi UFOs, George Orwell, Irwin Allen, Doctor Who, Scott Walker, Think Tanks, Jack the Ripper, Mystery Science Theater 3000, Daniel Ellsberg, Wikileaks, Mad Magazine, Harry Houdini, Lizard People, The Brady Bunch, Ronald Reagan, Carl Sagan, Gilligan's Island, Mother Teresa, Robber Barons, Les Paul, Howard Zinn, Hanna-Barbera, Joe McCarthy, Post-Apocalypse Cinema, Walt Disney, Charles Fort, Ayn Rand, Rachel Carson, beer, Holocaust denial, Time Travel, Emma Goldman, Pirates, Zombies, Jim Henson, Urban Legends, Friedrich Nietzsche, Watchmen, Richard Feynman, Mister Rogers, the presidents, James Bond, Henry Kissinger, The Business Plot, Tron, Fighting Bob Fest, Errol Morris, Tropic Thunder, the Olympics, Devo, Akira Kurosawa, Henry Ford, Iron Man vs. Zombie Strippers, Rod Serling, Cryptozoology, Leon Theremin, Stanley Kubrick, Nikola Tesla, Roger Corman, Douglas Adams, Iran, Godzilla, The Simpsons Movie, Sicko, Hunter S. Thompson, Mike Judge, Kurt Vonnegut, Grindhouse, 300, Conspiracies, Religion, Scientology, Tom Waits, Christmas, Sid and Marty Krofft, Elections, The Departed vs. Infernal Affairs, 40 Years of Star Trek, Philip K. Dick, Recumbent Bicycles, Roky Erickson, Jerry Lewis, Hugo Chavez, X-Men, Energy, The Neocons, The World's Fastest Indian, V for Vendetta, Studio Ghibli, and Star Trek Fan Films; or the occasional quagmire. So secure your helmet, close the hatch, and by all means turn up the volume!
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    Episodes (194)

    TR#200: A Christmas Mailbag 200 Miracle!

    TR#200: A Christmas Mailbag 200 Miracle!
    In this episode, the team celebrates their 200th episode and start questioning why they use the third person in their episode descriptions. Topics include the Trump impeachment, The Mandalorian, Disney+, Jeff Goldblum, Watchmen, Vikings, Knives Out, Silicon Valley, His Dark Materials, Jojo Rabbit, Hamilton, Mailbag, Doctor Sleep, Lords of Chaos, Harmonquest, Star Trek. Thanks to all of our listeners for making this possible!

    TR#198: The Middle Will Rise Again!

    TR#198: The Middle Will Rise Again!
    In this very long edition of the podcast we discuss Roky Erickson (July 15, 1947 - May 31, 2019), Sandy Hook deniers in Wisconsin, Judd Legum report on fake corporate LGBT support (T, UPS, Comcast, Home Depot, GE, Fedex, UBS, Verizon, Pfizer), Tavern League vs CBD, UFOs, Stanton Friedman, Venice, Chicago, Apple Mac Pro, Ford GT, VW Microbus, Truckla, Chinese Uighur Camps, American Child Concentration Camps, John Wick 3, The Tick canceled, Jessica Jones, Black Mirror, I Am Mother, Good Omens, Wisconsin Murder DNA, Radiohead leak, Bcycle meltdown, Skiing, Traffic, The Hate U Give and Race in America, Politics, and more!

    TR#196: Fritz Haber! (Or Was Thanos Right?)

    TR#196: Fritz Haber! (Or Was Thanos Right?)
    In this episode we discuss famed chemist Fritz Haber and his scientific contributions. Also Carl Bosch, Cable vs a la carte services, Notre Dame, Robber Barons, Vaccinations, Saudi Arabia, The Kid Who Would Be King, Barry, The Tick, Black Summer, Mueller Report, Impeachment, Trump Taxes, Democratic Candidates, Car Colors and Commercials, Wikileaks, Assange, Town Halls, Recycling, Madison Mayor Soglin, Poop, and more!

    TR#195: Tim Apple and Don Orange!

    TR#195: Tim Apple and Don Orange!
    In this episode we discuss spring elections, touchy Biden, democrat candidates, Mueller report, windmill cancer, Spam, Jim Jeffries, NZ shooting, Incredibles 2, Harry Potter, Knightfall, Captain Marvel, US, I am Big Bird, Flowers, After Life, Love Death and Robots, Mary Queen of Scots, Sisters Brothers, Hostiles, Stan and Ollie, Downer Lutheran Gumby, The Highwaymen, Destination Wedding, A Private War, Leaving Neverland, The Man Who Killed Hitler and Then the Bigfoot, Walk Hard the Dewey Cox Story, The Tick season 2, Borderlands 3, Mac PC, Console wars and more.

    TR#194: Mayo Bernays!

    TR#194: Mayo Bernays!
    In this episode we discuss the works of famed propagandist Edward Bernays! We also discuss Michael Cohen, The Orville, The Oscars, Captain Marvel, Shazam, I Am the Night, Kingdom, Umbrella Academy, Lego Movie 2, Alita: Battle Angel and Won't You Be My Neighbor with Godzuki, Boy Erased, Suspiria, Happy Death Day, The Captain, Sisters Brothers, Neal Brennan, Bo Burnham, Seveneves by Neal Stephenson, and more!

    TR#193: To the M-O-O-N and Back!

    TR#193: To the M-O-O-N and Back!
    Weather, Oscars, Razzies, Kidnappings, Love Symbol #2, Prince, Muppets, Spiderman: Into the Spiderverse, Spike Lee, Raw, Sportball, Government shutdown, Gillette Commercial, Lincoln Memorial Kerfuffle, Social media and the meaning of life, Ministry of Loneliness, PTSD, Monty Don, Vikings, The Orville, Bandersnatch, Patriot, The Punisher, Wrap up on Aquacan, The Death of Stalin, Color out of Space, Sam Elliott vs Hitler then Bigfoot, and more!

    TR#192: Happy Christmas and Merry Holidays!

    TR#192: Happy Christmas and Merry Holidays!
    In this very special episode the gang discusses the year that was and reminisces on all things including Tales From the Tour Bus, Aquacan is coming, Amazon, Scott Walker flips off Wisconsin one last time, Vice, Guns and Airports, Yemen, The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, Vikings Season 5, The Tudors, Monty Don, American Gods at House on the Rock, The Orville, The Curse of Oak Island, Comic Con, Meeting William Shatner, Brady Bunch, SKG Retrogaming, Babylon 5, A debate on the worst Star Trek TOS Episode, Nightflyers (aka Dogvomit ripoff of Saturn 5 [3?], Silent Running, A Boy and his Dog and others), also Raw Deal, Die Hard, Uncle Nick, and more!

    TR#191: Performative Umbrage!

    TR#191: Performative Umbrage!
    In this episode the team discuss Frontline, the Baraboo Salute, Stan Lee, Stephen Hillenburg, Wizard World, Adult Swim, Dethklok, Douglas Rain, The Good Place, John Allen Chau, Mandy, Ayn Rand Film Trilogy Atlas Shrugged, Sports Talk, Age of Tanks, Damnation, Vikings, Amazon Prime, The Night Eats the World, Jack Ryan, Electric Dreams, Diablo III, I Think We’re Alone Now, The Lodgers, Overlord, Ralph Breaks the Internet, Scooters, Texas, Freaks, and more!

    TR#187: Distraction Smorgasbord!

    TR#187: Distraction Smorgasbord!
    The team reconvenes after a brief hiatus to discuss the things they have been enjoying in film, TV, and other media as well as some reasons to embrace distractions from the horrors of modern politics! Topics include: Jerry Lewis update, Westworld, Blade of the Immortal, 13 Assassins, James Gunn, Papa Johns, Elon Musk, The 8-Bit Guy, ElectroBOOM, Sorry to Bother You, MI6 Fallout, The Meg, Incredibles 2, DC Meets Hanna-Barbera, Ant-Man and the Wasp, The Endless, The Limehouse Golem, The Tick, Bombshell, Please Stand By, Rampage, The Expanse, Sennheiser HD 4.50 headphones, and more!

    TR#185: Curling for Movies!

    TR#185: Curling for Movies!
    In this episode, the team distracts itself from politics for a while discussing movies and TV, then we discuss the NRA and the loss of Paul Ryan. Films discussed include Ready Player One, A Quiet Place, The Florida Project, I Tonya, 3 Billboards, Paterno, Paul Blart 2, A Man Called Ove, Chappaquiddick, Solo, Infinity War, Black Panther, and more. We look at the small screen and discuss The Terror, Legion, and more. Viktor talks about his trip to Hawaii. The gang debates Elon Musk and Paul Ryan. Sputnik fills us in on his latest gun show trip and we discuss the NRA. We also say goodbye to Stephen Hawking, rest in peace.

    TR#184: Hogan's Heroes!

    TR#184: Hogan's Heroes!
    In this episode, the team closes the TV trifecta loop for listener 'fishy' and tells the tale of Hogan's Heroes. We discuss Werner Klemperer, Richard Dawson, Bob Crane, but also get side-tracked by Black Mirror, Soglin, Shit-hole comments, Mother!, and The Hulk. We revisit Captain America, the 1st Avenger. We talk AUTOFOCUS, Role Models, Paul, Erased, Family Feud, and Fire and Fury. Plus some computer trash talk!

    TR#183: Star War!

    TR#183: Star War!
    In this episode, the team goes full nerd and discusses the newest Star War! We dive really deep into Star Wars: The Last Jedi, Episode VIII. We also cover Dark, the German Netflix show. We discuss Justice League and how it was middling to OK. But we thought Thor Ragnarok was the best thing ever! Also Vikings and more!