No Way, Jose!

No Way, Jose! is a politics show hosted by Jose. It is streamed live and published as numbered episodes, with a deep back catalog behind it. Recent episodes fall into two formats, and each does a different job. 'The Morning Dump' is the weekday show. Jose says he aims for Monday through Friday around 11 a.m. Eastern, and he openly admits he misses it. 'We very rarely make it,' he says, and he jokes that it might need renaming to a daily dump. Before any headlines, a cat gets the camera. Pippa, a little blue tabby, is bashful the day after being fixed. Diablo is a goofball who lets himself be turned upside down, and Rice is introduced as the less fuzzy sister of Sushi. Then come what Jose calls his hot takes, and the titles show the range: 'World War Winding Down?', 'The Audacity of This Administration', 'Melania Opens Epstein Pandora's Box', 'Trump's Ultimate TACO Tuesday'. The guest series drop that list of headlines and stay with one guest and one line of discussion. On 'The Weekly Wolfson', Jose and Matt Wolfson talk through pieces Matt has covered, and listeners are pointed to Matt's work at oppo-research.com. When introducing the series, Jose floated releasing it to patrons on Wednesdays, for the alliteration, and to the public around the weekend. One entry covers Gaza and the UAE. Another returns to Hindutva, the politicians it affects and how diaspora politics has moved from one group to another. Part of that conversation argues that the Pentagon rewards narrow expertise over the self-sufficiency traditionally valued in America. It then describes earlier generations of Hindus claiming a place in those institutions on skill while professing pluralism, a change in that stance in the 2010s, and a parallel with Jewish politics in the 1990s. Doc Inferno anchors the other series, a multi-part history of the Years of Lead, and its third part was billed as covering the Red Brigade, its influences and some early kidnappings. Sampled audio runs through both formats. After Jose's welcome, several episodes cut to clips: a narrator insisting footage proves the Branch Davidians were murdered, a voice describing deliberate and deadly terrorist acts, and another declaring 'I want you to get mad.' The audience is part of the format too. Patrons can sit in on the Wolfson recordings live, the top Patreon tier gets a thank-you, and morning viewers are invited into the chat. For a first listen, the Wolfson conversations follow one argument through, while 'The Morning Dump' offers Jose's reactions to the news, and a cat.