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Critical Wade Theory
Wade Wainio
681 episodes
11 hours ago
I'll talk about everything from politics to entertainment and philosophy. I'm also a part-time entertainment writer and working-class from the UP of Michigan, so that might come up occasionally. Oh, and I make weird experimental music and sometimes host a college radio show.
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I'll talk about everything from politics to entertainment and philosophy. I'm also a part-time entertainment writer and working-class from the UP of Michigan, so that might come up occasionally. Oh, and I make weird experimental music and sometimes host a college radio show.
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Critical Wade Theory
CWT611: New Year's Resolution / After We Fell (2021) REVIEW

Today I'm talking about After We Fell, the 2021 romantic drama and the third installment in the After franchise. If you’ve made it this far into the series, you already know what kind of ride you’re signing up for. Big emotions, messy relationships, and a lot of arguing in nice-looking rooms.

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1 day ago
20 minutes 12 seconds

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CWT610: 'Homegrown' Director Michael Premo on His January 6 Documentary [INTERVIEW]

[NOTE: I will upload a fuller video of this, if there is a demand for it, with "demand" meaning if even 1 person asks for it.]

In his latest documentary work, Homegrown, filmmaker Michael Premo turns his camera away from institutions and figureheads and instead focuses on the everyday people who became wrapped up in the events surrounding January 6. In this conversation with me (for VENTS Magazine online, and for this podcast), Premo talks about responsibility, radicalization, ethics, and what he learned by staying close to the personal lives of those involved.

The documentary will be released in North America on January 6, 2026, marking the five-year anniversary of the attack on the U.S. Capitol. 

The film Homegrown is also currently available at homegrown.film.


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4 days ago
12 minutes 5 seconds

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🎙️CWT609: The Divinyls – Underworld (1996): Darkness at the End of the Line

If you think of the Divinyls purely through the lens of “I Touch Myself,” you'll have an idea of what this album might provide — even if the lyrics don't unsettle prudes as much as their hit about handling the bearded clam.


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1 week ago
8 minutes 57 seconds

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🎙️CWT608: 'Highway 61 Revisited': Dylan's Song, America, and the Sound of Collapse

Released in 1965 as the title track of Dylan’s album Highway 61 Revisited, the song stands as one of the clearest statements of his break from acoustic folk into electric blues-rock. This wasn’t a gentle evolution. It was a confrontation — with tradition, with authority, and with the idea that music should behave itself.

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1 week ago
20 minutes 3 seconds

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🎙️CWT607: High Voltage Festival

Remembering a rock festival...that I never went to.

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1 week ago
15 minutes 56 seconds

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Dimwits, Dipsh*ts, Dufuses, and Dullards (E. 51); Milei, Asfura, Kast & Latin America's Far-Right Shift

What happens when a country hands the keys to a werewolf?

More broadly, I discuss Latin America's far-right shift.

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1 week ago
34 minutes 20 seconds

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🎙️CWT606: Hunger in the Gingerbread House: Teeth, Fire, Female Fury 🧙‍♀️🍭🔥

When we think about fairy tales, most of us picture the cleaned-up versions. Soft edges. Clear morals. Princesses who suffer quietly until someone saves them. These are the Victorian-era revisions many of us grew up with, stories that have been sanded down to feel safe, instructive, and polite.


But that’s not where these stories began...

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1 week ago
13 minutes 22 seconds

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🎙️CWT605: 'Romancing the Stone' by Eddy Grant MUSIC VIDEO REVIEW

Today, I'm talking about a song that lives at the crossroads of pop music and movie history. It’s called “Romancing the Stone”, and it comes from Eddy Grant in 1984. It was also made to promote a film of the same name.


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1 week ago
13 minutes 12 seconds

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🎙️CWT604: Trump Parasitically Latches onto Kennedy Center

There's a lot I could take about regarding Trump, like the Epstein files.


But today I'm talking about a building.

But really, I'm talking about power.

And the line between law and ego.

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2 weeks ago
8 minutes 23 seconds

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VIDEO: Interview w/ Myles Kennedy of Alter Bridge / Slash featuring Myles Kennedy and the Conspirators

A fan of Myles Kennedy asked me to post the full video version, so here it is! Now you can see my goofy face, in addition ti hearing my goofy voice.

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2 weeks ago
17 minutes 38 seconds

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🎙️CWT603: Ty Segall (2017) ALBUM REVIEW

Welcome back. Today we’re talking about Ty Segall — the 2017 self-titled album by Ty Segall. Not the first one. The second. And that detail actually matters.

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2 weeks ago
11 minutes 53 seconds

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🎙️CWT602: Front-Loaded Teeth and How Predators Use Them!

Today, I'm talking about a surprisingly common pattern in predators, both living and extinct. It’s a dental setup where teeth are concentrated toward the front of the jaws, while the back of the mouth has fewer teeth or none at all.

Also, what's a key difference between alligators and crocodiles? It's all right here!

IMAGE CREDIT: Some joke on Reddit. Not sure of the original source.

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2 weeks ago
8 minutes 3 seconds

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🎙️CWT601: Highway 61 Revisited — Dylan Goes Electric

Today we’re digging into Highway 61 Revisited, the 1965 Bob Dylan album that marked the moment he threw himself fully into electric rock. If you know even a little Dylan, you know this is the record that split audiences, rewired songwriting, and helped move popular music into a new era.

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2 weeks ago
11 minutes 24 seconds

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🎙️CWT600: Education Faces a War on Science

Today, I want to talk about something that, at first glance, looks like a routine university course offering. But somehow, it ends up tangled in a much bigger fight. A fight over science, education, and who knowledge is supposed to be for.

I will also discuss how outrage against the course ties into a broader war on science and education overall...

IMAGE: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. swam in Washington, D.C.'s Rock Creek, a waterway known to be contaminated with high levels of bacteria and fecal matter from sewer runoff, despite explicit warnings from the National Park Service (NPS). Swimming in D.C. waterways has been banned for over 50 years due to the health risks. 

Kennedy currently serves as the U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS).


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2 weeks ago
17 minutes 29 seconds

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Dimwits, Dipsh*ts, Dufuses, and Dullards (E. 50); Trump Offers More Waiting on Promises

In this episode, Trump urges Americans to keep waiting for his glorious golden age benefits to roll in. I also discuss the co-author of Art of the Deal, and how, despite helping Trump significantly image-wise, he went on to become a critic. I also talk about a former Disney CEO.

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2 weeks ago
24 minutes 27 seconds

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🎙️CWT599: Interview w/ Myles Kennedy of Alter Bridge / Slash featuring Myles Kennedy and the Conspirators

Full, live video version available if there's enough demand. Personally, I don't need to see my goofy face (hearing my goofy voice is enough). BUT if enough people out there wat to see the full video version, let me know in the comments.

I semi-apologize for the image quality of the main photo, but we were using Zoom so what are you gonna do?

Anyway, here I talk to Myles Kennedy of Alter Bridge / Slash featuring Myles Kennedy and the Conspirators. This was originally for an interview article, but everyone in conversation agreed it could double as a podcast episode.

To be honest, I wasn't very familiar with Alter Bridge before this interview, but you know what? Practically everyone at least knows who Slash is, and Myles plays in a band with Slash. Alter Bridge is also a respected band among modern guitarists, with Myles and Mark Tremonti often seen as among those guitarists who "keep rock alive."


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2 weeks ago
17 minutes 37 seconds

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🎙️CWT598: Escape, Stories, And The Middle Ground

Today I want to talk - at least tangentially - about two classic stories almost everyone knows: Cinderella and Aladdin...


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2 weeks ago
7 minutes 41 seconds

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🎙️CWT597: The Axehandle Hound 🪓🐕 and Other Creatures of the Big Woods

Let's talk about a mythological creature called The Axehandle Hound.

Main image from "Cryptid Wiki."

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2 weeks ago
10 minutes 50 seconds

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🎙️CWT596: Favored and Forsaken


There’s a common mistake people make when they look at ancient epics, especially Greek ones. They assume these stories are just primitive attempts to explain cruelty. Bad things happen because the gods are petty. Lightning strikes because Zeus is angry. Suffering gets shrugged off as fate.


But that reading misses the point.

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3 weeks ago
6 minutes 58 seconds

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🎙️CWT595: Beyond the Moral of the Story

When we teach folktales, we often treat them like containers.

Open the story. Extract the lesson. Close the book.


Be kind. Be brave. Don’t lie.

Message received. Next story.


But what if that’s the least interesting thing a folktale can do?

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3 weeks ago
9 minutes 34 seconds

Critical Wade Theory
I'll talk about everything from politics to entertainment and philosophy. I'm also a part-time entertainment writer and working-class from the UP of Michigan, so that might come up occasionally. Oh, and I make weird experimental music and sometimes host a college radio show.