They're Gunna Kill Us: Recent Episodes
Sam Castro & Sean Bedlam
Samantha Castro and Sean Bedlam teamed up during Occupy Melbourne, Australia, and have been anarchically fighting side by side for all sorts of justice since then. They've been arrested and tackled by the cops in the streets too many times to count, occupied State Parliament and got injured in the process, been dragged out of the US Consulate, occupied the British Embassy, fought the police in court on ridiculous charges again and again and have supported, nurtured and trained young radical activists all along the way. By encouraging them to glue their bodies to the inside of Federal Parliament. For instance.Sam and Sean have often said to each other over a beer that what they say when they have a drink a together should really be a TV show. But a podcast will have to do.The funnest possible deadly serious activism talk. Is what it is.There is a lot of podcast action that isn't any kind of voice of street activism and there's plenty of anarchist stuff that is sensitive to the needs of others to the point of being unlistenably earnest. But they're gunna kill us. So let's have fun.
Sean here. I've been making videos about the recent discovery of my Autism (or Neurodivergence) and here they are in podcast form. Wow. Go off.
Blockade Australia people have just had a brutal two weeks and thanks to draconian bail conditions they can't even talk to each other about it. Go to their website for further details on what they're about.
TGKU show notes (guest Celeste Liddle) Pt 2
“We can smell blood” Part 2.
Show notes, including times of Celeste’s bits
Hillsong
Enjoying Scott’s suffering
Sean makes possibly no sense about import/export religion
4 minutes 10 seconds. Celeste talks about deep-seated colonial christianity
Christian Capitalism
Ben Roberts Smith
SAS torture of protesters in Australia
15:35 Celeste on murderous racist police, Abu Graib
Lynndie England
Journalism that fails to see patterns
Handy “lone wolf” scapegoats
Lindt Cafe massacre
Bourke St massacre
What are cops
Christchurch massacre
Strategy of tension
25 minutes. Celeste on fear of nationalism continuing to be reinforced
Egging Craig Kelly
Far right organising
Doing to the ALP what the teals did to the Liberal party
Is Stella a Yelling at Racist Dogs dog
Feminists United Australia
Putting forward a left alternative.
DIY it seat by seat, issue by issue.
TGKU show notes (guest Celeste Liddle)
“We can smell blood” Part 1.
Show notes, including times of Celeste’s bits.
We return after over a year.
High on life, watching conservative scm eat sht.
We are joined by Celeste Liddle, who got the biggest swing with the most anti-establishment campaign for the Greens in Cooper.
ALP boat turnbacks make ALP twitter go quiet for a second.
Victorian Premier Dan Andrews continues his years long attack on the right to protest, wants to give forest activists a year in jail.
Police attack on refugee protesters at MITA.
Police ideological alignment with lockdown era cooker protests.
VicForest is illegally logging. Thanks Dan!
Mainstream media trying and failing to talk about politics. On purpose.
17 minutes: Celeste talks about how she thought the election might go.
Media go up their own arses.
How does a person make any sense of this.
22:10 Celeste speaks about media.
ALP supporter vote compass freak out.
27:40 Celeste talks about insanely racist and ALP supporter response to her camapaign announcement.
The Section 44 debacle.
23 pages of racist, sexist, patronising comments in first 3 days of campaign.
Wong and Plibsersek retweeting the garbage.
Emily’s List ffs.
“They were fixated on me and Lidia.”
F*cked up abuse directed at women on the left by people on the left.
37 minutes: Celeste talks about countering attacks.
Too few calling it out.
Zero solidarity from so-called progressive women in power.
The strange silence of the compromised.
Swinging anarchists
The point of getting into politics.
44:20 Celeste on being a feminist, anarchist leaning Arrernte woman deciding to run.
A repugnant, colonial system.
Dan’s cop-focused way to deal with pandemic crisis.
A handful of people make decisions in the country. They need to be checked.
ALP entitlement.
“I don’t see being a politician as being a career.”
Until about 4 years ago the Greens had about as much substance on Indigenous politics as the majors.
Lidia Thorpe, sovereignty activist, showed there was a different way.
Unexpected alliances.
The difference between organising and campaigning.
1 hour: Celeste on keeping control of her excellent social media during a campaign.
Grassroots and punk rock.
DIY collectivism.
Teals were far more corporate, but still injected excitement.
Anti-fascism.
What it means to live in a successful and thriving society.
Left on our own with fires and floods.
Not getting stuck in the electoral cycle.
1:16:30 Celeste on post-campaign thoughts.
Growing up rusted-on Labor.
S11, children overboard and the Intervention. Turning points.
Pat O’Shane.
Lidia showed “we can do things our way.”
This is the system, change it or dismantle it.
Anarchists will be mad.
Sean is Autistic, apparently.
Child sacrifice is wrong.
Part two coming shortly.
Give up on politics! Unless you're gunna get involved at a genuinely grassroots level and build a movement from the ground up, of course.
Phil Evans returns and everyone gets excited about the ban on fracking, Sean gets sidetracked and then Sam gets into what to actually do about the horror that is Australian government. Stuff like changing the government. Like really changing it. Like how to do it and why and what demands to make and how hard to fight now that everyone's on the same page about how rooted Straya is at every level.
A monster with a swastika on his forehead commits a hate crime.
A serial rapist loose in Parliament and a Defence Minister melts down and goes to hospital.
The Government sets up a hotline for the worst employers to terrorise people.
Social media megalomaniacs take on an entire nation.
It's been a big week.
Trump's time comes to a close, but psychotic racists aren't going anywhere soon. Sam & Sean discuss:
- the Capitol Riots
- what people have to say about the Capitol Riots
- what we have to say about what people have to say about the Capitol Riots
It starts out jokey and gets serious. Not many jokes in this episode. Enjoy!
Vincent Emanuele joins Sam and Sean from the United States and they discussed:
- ennui
- sadness
- anxiety
- magic mushrooms
- weed
- The Vaccine
- meltdowns
- shitfights
- clusterfucks
- pettiness
- all of which are great drugs
Sam and Sean discuss:
- why they are mad at Christmas
- yes it's their childhood
- Santa the slavemaster
- why the nuclear family needs to be nuked
- then it gets a bit random
- and then they get back on track.
Sam and Sean surf into years end on a wave of bad vibes and discuss
- an entire class of people seemingly hellbent on acting normal
- the good old days when people were at least cannon fodder
- Australia's Super Ministry of Pigs
- the loss of all hope and your dignity
- no wait that's a lyric from a Slayer song
- still though
- things are harsh
Sam and Sean are back after a too-long break enforced by a house move and a large handful of technical difficulties. Discussed in this episode
- war crimes and how much strayans love war crimes and the criminals that commit them
- the extreme sport murderers we call soldiers
- PTSD and why it should be encouraged in people who do bad things
- straya's big dumb media and it's habit of making excuses for bad people
- activism as the only game in town when the game is rigged, wait does that make sense
Vince Emanuele joins Sam and Sean to celebrate the success of Covid 19 in acquiring Donald Trump.
In which Sam and Sean discuss
- the sheer brain force of reading a lot of books
- the sheer ordinariness of a particular set of books
- but also Twilight
- but not The Hunger Games
- and the brain drain of social media
- the blindness of American Exceptionalism
- the doomedness of the USA
- like really, surprise us America
- and of course lots of other bits and tangents
- but defo the anti-lockdown protests and what is that all about?
What an incredible time to be alive! We discuss
- Chaos and madness is the latest craze and we can't wait for this fad to end!
- Conspiracy theory mentalities versus practical people doing actual stuff
- Anarchism is about self discipline so shut up
- The internet must destroyed
Sam and Sean reach out across the icy vastness of lockdown to bring a message of hope. Also included in this week's mental health package:
- will Australia be sucked into the crater created by the implosion of the USA?
- will Australians be rounded up to work in future fruit camps?
- what's a fruit camp?
- what future?
- and all sorts of other fun stuff
Ezekiel Ox once again joins Samantha and Sean for a freewheeling conversation about all sorts of terrible, horrible, bad, awful things. Hooray!
Vince Emanuele from PARC Media joins Sam and Sean to talk about the absolute state of the United States. Wine was consumed and this episode is all over the place, but it was fun in an end of the world kind of way. Also discussed
- how sexy is our bootlicker Premier?
- will people with criminal DNA survive the coming darkness?
- how committed are progressives to being entirely useless?
- is Sean cancelled?
Good friend Phil Evans joins Sam and Sean and they discuss:
- Police, intelligence agency and business infiltration of activist groups
- the purity and joy of facial recognition technology
- the purity and joy of becoming excessively paranoid
- the insane idiocy of the stupidity of everything
- a radical queer journey
- the impossibility of hiding from awesomeness
- and waltzing into parliament to fuck shit up.
In this episode
- Elite counter terror deadshits, domestically violent cops and their pig support system,
- Rio Tinto destruction of cave art so old it makes our entire civilisation irrelevant,
- cops turning peaceful protesters into radicals through violence,
- the sheer firepower impressiveness of Black Lives Matter,
- not even people who reckon cops are necessary would ever trust a cop,
- if we fuck off the police the rich will have to behave themselves,
- young people just want colonisation to come to an end,
- BLM has reintroduced hope on the world stage in a big way.
Sam and Sean talk about what the massive Australian Black Lives Matter rallies mean for the Land Downunda. Get a barbie up ya dingo moit!
Vince Emanuele joins Sam and Sean for a fun chat about the President's anus and people who are anuses.
Sarah Ruby joins Sam and Sean to discuss her work pulling together piles of files on Peter Dutton, Minister for Home Affairs. None of his staff like him, he's made a lot of cheeky boo-boos, he's risen rather high and his fall could be spectacular.
Sam is moving into a tent in the back yard, Sean has no dignity, Booster is taking almost but not quite a whole day off social media and together this week's TGKU team bring you all sorts of terrible advice, punishingly involved back story, extremely basic hopes and dreams and the collective wisdom of the smallest generation of all, Gen X.
Ezekiel Ox joins TGKU to talk about
- Apologising to lunatics.
- 24 hour livestreams.
- Cops out of Trades Hall.
- See you on the streets.
- Not right now, obviously.
In an Easter Sunday conversation Sam and Sean talk about
- the most rubbish church that has ever existed,
- civilisations that suck from the get go,
- terrible movies based on dangerous myths about dumb heroes,
- the apocalyptic dreams of billionaires and
- the Australian Unemployed Workers Union.
The Booster and The Baron join The Castro and The Bedlam.
- Getting hung up on rent strike concepts with landlords (who don't seem to want to live),
- drawing up priority guillotine lists,
- creative uses for guillotines and
- the near future threat of ruin for millions.
So all the good stuff, but also setting the scene for
- how we want to live,
- how we can do it,
- what does it look like.
- No wait, that's the next time The The Gang get together because we ran out of time because we're running out of time.
Vince Emanuele joins Sam and Sean from the States once more to talk about what's outside pandemic reality.
What they find is the leadership potential of the people who hold civilisation together - drivers, cashiers, nurses - and a vision for a future that is you the listener seeing yourself as a Prime Minister of Unplanned Revolution. As well as a lot of silliness about Hairy Madonna, 5G bats and home rib removal, they talk about:
- Bernie as possibly the last gasp for electoral politics,
- using trial and error to overthrow governments,
- snapping out of the pandemic daze and
- the dazzling incompetency of most people in charge.
This is a very loose episode in some ways, but moving into a present of having to mobilise all the time means letting go of normality. Normality is dissolving but we don't have to!
Welcome to acting like there's a crisis and taking full advantage of the opportunities to do awesome shit, every day! You have the power to shut down the whole system! All RIGHT! The epidemic of boring lives is over!
Also: shame is back and it's happy to help youse.
Lana Schwarcz and Josh Ladgrove join Sam and Sean for a chat about risk, art, getting out of the arts, netflix, smelling faraway bushfire smoke on a beach, grandmas, keeping track of people falling through the cracks and strapping in for 12 to 18 more months of remote podcasting, garage jogging and incremental, terrible change and sweeping, terrible change.
Our mate Mara Bonacci joins us to talk about the recent bushfires, snipers, internet shutdowns, roaming patrols of private cops, dead alphas, schools as refuges and Pump Up The Volume.
Tom Tanuki, co-founder of Yelling At Racist Dogs and the mind behind the podcast The Poor Can Feed The Birds joins Sam and Sean and together they laugh cruelly at the anxiety of others to make themselves feel better about The Virus. Also, deadly earnest seriousness about The Virus. The Virus also comes in for a mention.
In this episode, recorded on the first day of the massive failure of Centrelink to provide for people, Sam and Sean lash out wildly at Boomers and manage to be correct the whole time.
Sam and Sean team up with our buddy in the US, Vince Emanuele, to help the virus on it's apparent mission to end capitalism.
The International Women's Day 2020 episode, where Castro talks Bedlam through the sheer epicness of it all.
Sam Castro and Sean Bedlam share their tips and tricks for staging a revolution that ends all tyranny.