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Giving the Mic to the Wrong Person
Socialism and Simpsons soundclips. Posadism and pro-wrestling.
A somewhat tri-weekly leftist podcast based in Portland, OR, talking with people about their cultural obsessions and offering plenty of our own recommendations. We try to make socialism more fun with pop culture refs, you could say.
Contact: @givingthemic on Twitter // Givingthemic@gmail.com // www.facebook.com/givingthemic/
Doug Lain returns to the show! Here to tell his side of the story of what happened to Zero Books and the reviving of Diet Soap Media as a podcast/youtube channel/publishing house. Hear all the hot goss about what went down with the purchase of Zero Books, what's coming next, and what Doug _really_ thinks about Dune.
Diet Soap on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/c/douglain
Diet Soap Media: https://www.dietsoap.net/ Support the Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/dietsoap/ - Help us make the show! Supporters of our Patreon heard this episode in its entirety early! www.patreon.com/givingthemic - Find us on Twitter: www.twitter.com/givingthemic - Questions/comments/suggestions for great local Korean food: givingthemic@gmail.com - facebook.com/givingthemic/ - - Main theme by The Mysterious Breakfast'r Cereal on SoundCloud @chiptheme - - All items trademarked and copyright their respective owners. Please don't sue. Please don't sue. Please don't sue.
Part 2 of our discussion with educators about what's been learnt in the past year plus about teaching kids(and ESL students) both online and in-person. In this part, we get into how much more stressful the return to in-person teaching has been. We're joined by Derick Varn, Melisa Crosby, and my sister Beth Salmon.
Check out Derick Varn at VarnVlog: https://www.youtube.com/c/CDerickVarnVlog
Other resources mentioned: The Change Agent: https://changeagent.nelrc.org/ - EdWeek: https://www.edweek.org/ - Chronicle of Higher Education: https://www.chronicle.com/ - Help us make the show! Supporters of our Patreon heard this episode in its entirety early! www.patreon.com/givingthemic - Find us on Twitter: www.twitter.com/givingthemic - Questions/comments/suggestions for great local Korean food: givingthemic@gmail.com - facebook.com/givingthemic/ - - Main theme by The Mysterious Breakfast'r Cereal on SoundCloud @chiptheme - - All items trademarked and copyright their respective owners. Please don't sue. Please don't sue. Please don't sue.
Part 1 of this talk, the whole ep is available now on Patreon at Http://www.patreon.com/givingthemic.
We revisit our episode from early pandemic, talking to grade school and community college educators about what we've learned(if anything) about teaching kids and ESL since then. Derick Varn, Melisa Crosby, and my sister Beth Salmon have a stimulating conversation about educator burnout, where online teaching worked well, and more.
Check out Derick Varn at VarnVlog: https://www.youtube.com/c/CDerickVarnVlog
Help us make the show! www.patreon.com/givingthemic - Find us on Twitter: www.twitter.com/givingthemic - Questions/comments/suggestions for great local Korean food: givingthemic@gmail.com - facebook.com/givingthemic/ - - Main theme by The Mysterious Breakfast'r Cereal on SoundCloud @chiptheme - - All items trademarked and copyright their respective owners. Please don't sue. Please don't sue. Please don't sue.
Part 2 of our review of Mark Levin's American Marxism. It doesn't get better than Part 1.
Check out Andrew Hartman's book, _A War For The Soul Of America: A History Of The Culture Wars_
Help us make the show! www.patreon.com/givingthemic - Find us on Twitter: www.twitter.com/givingthemic - Questions/comments/suggestions for great local Korean food: givingthemic@gmail.com - facebook.com/givingthemic/ - - Main theme by The Mysterious Breakfast'r Cereal on SoundCloud @chiptheme - - All items trademarked and copyright their respective owners. Please don't sue. Please don't sue. Please don't sue.
Part 1 of 2-parter, the whole conversation is already available for patrons at http://Patreon.com/givingthemic.
Part 1! Mark Levin's American Marxism book! It's a best-seller! Burning up the charts! It's really dumb and has no real idea what it's talking about, but that ain't going to let it stop from being yet another salvo in the Culture War!
We welcome back Prof. Andrew Hartman(from ep. 81) and Jason(from ep. 38?) to go over this book. Thrill to discussions of why Mark Levin thinks that Marcuse was a member of "The Franklin School", how he's doing some sorta where Nietzschean thing with morality, and other heady concepts.
Check out Andrew Hartman's book, _A War For The Soul Of America: A History Of The Culture Wars_
Help us make the show! www.patreon.com/givingthemic - Find us on Twitter: www.twitter.com/givingthemic - Questions/comments/suggestions for great local Korean food: givingthemic@gmail.com - facebook.com/givingthemic/ - - Main theme by The Mysterious Breakfast'r Cereal on SoundCloud @chiptheme - - All items trademarked and copyright their respective owners. Please don't sue. Please don't sue. Please don't sue.
[FIXED AUDIO - this is corrected from the original upload]. A panel of leftist veterans and DSA members(ft. Mitch, Spencer, Marcos, and James) joins us to talk about serving in American imperial war, the Afghanistan withdrawal, the "hero worship" that American culture has pushed for 20 years, and what all this actually does to a person. Good words here for veterans, active duty servicepeople, and civilians. This episode gets emotionally heavy with talk of heavy topics like trauma and suicide, so take care.
If you need this number, the number for the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline is 1-800-273-TALK (1-800-273-8255)
About Face: Veterans Against the War - https://aboutfaceveterans.org/
The DSA Veterans Working Groups - https://www.dsausa.org/working-groups/veterans-working-group/
Combat Obscura - a documentary assembled from Marine-shot footage in Afghanistan - http://combatobscura.oscilloscope.net/
Pod recs:
Eyes Left - https://soundcloud.com/eyesleft @eyesleft
What A Hell of a Way to Die - https://soundcloud.com/hellofawaytodie - @hellofawaytodie
- Help us make the show! www.patreon.com/givingthemic - Find us on Twitter: www.twitter.com/givingthemic - Questions/comments/suggestions for great local Korean food: givingthemic@gmail.com - facebook.com/givingthemic/ - - Main theme by The Mysterious Breakfast'r Cereal on SoundCloud @chiptheme - - All items trademarked and copyright their respective owners. Please don't sue. Please don't sue. Please don't sue.
[FIXED AUDIO]. A panel of leftist veterans and DSA members(ft. Mitch, Spencer, Marcos, and James) joins us to talk about serving in American imperial war, the Afghanistan withdrawal, the "hero worship" that American culture has pushed for 20 years, and what all this actually does to a person. Good words here for veterans, active duty servicepeople, and civilians. This episode gets emotionally heavy with talk of heavy topics like trauma and suicide, so take care.
If you need this number, the number for the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline is 1-800-273-TALK (1-800-273-8255)
About Face: Veterans Against the War - https://aboutfaceveterans.org/
The DSA Veterans Working Groups - https://www.dsausa.org/working-groups/veterans-working-group/
Combat Obscura - a documentary assembled from Marine-shot footage in Afghanistan - http://combatobscura.oscilloscope.net/
Pod recs:
Eyes Left - https://soundcloud.com/eyesleft @eyesleft
What A Hell of a Way to Die - https://soundcloud.com/hellofawaytodie - @hellofawaytodie
- Help us make the show! www.patreon.com/givingthemic - Find us on Twitter: www.twitter.com/givingthemic - Questions/comments/suggestions for great local Korean food: givingthemic@gmail.com - facebook.com/givingthemic/ - - Main theme by The Mysterious Breakfast'r Cereal on SoundCloud @chiptheme - - All items trademarked and copyright their respective owners. Please don't sue. Please don't sue. Please don't sue.
Ben Burgis returns to the show to talk about his new book _Canceling Comedians While the World Burns_ with Jacob & I. We get into the pathologies of powerlessness, better ways to handle online disagreement, and more.
Check out Ben's show "Give Them An Argument" here: https://www.youtube.com/user/benburgis1
- Help us make the show! http://www.patreon.com/givingthemic - Find us on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/givingthemic - Questions/comments/suggestions for great local Korean food: givingthemic@gmail.com - http://facebook.com/givingthemic/ - - Main theme by The Mysterious Breakfast'r Cereal on SoundCloud @chiptheme - - All items trademarked and copyright their respective owners. Please don't sue. Please don't sue. Please don't sue.
July 24th, 2021! The March for Medicare for All will start across many cities, so we chatted with members of the Portland coalition putting it on. Join us on that Saturday down on the waterfront at 10:30am. Rally starts at the Shemanski Park at 12:00.
https://m4m4all.org/
Regular guest C. Derick Varn was gracious enough to invite me on his youtube show/podcast VarnVlog, back in early July. We cover everything from how people's rhetoric gets a lot more heated as the stake argued over decline, the limits on our current horizon for political change, a bunch of Q&A, and a lot more.
Subscribe to the VarnVlog here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMuZYE1Q9yNpzn4dzsPtmcQ https://varnvlogvoice.buzzsprout.com/
Relief checks! Stimulus Funds! Biden Bucks! How to get them to the most at-risk communities like local houseless folks. We talk with Steve from the 1040Bloc, a project out of Portland DSA, which works on filing basic tax forms so folks can get some relief funds. We also go thru the step-by-step process if you want to start your own project.
For more info, check here: https://www.facebook.com/1040bloc https://twitter.com/pdx1040bloc - See Jacob play Red Dead Redemption 2 on Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/jacobmercy - Help us make the show! http://www.patreon.com/givingthemic - Find us on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/givingthemic - Questions/comments/suggestions for great local Korean food: givingthemic@gmail.com - http://facebook.com/givingthemic/ - - Main theme by The Mysterious Breakfast'r Cereal on SoundCloud @chiptheme - - All items trademarked and copyright their respective owners. Please don't sue. Please don't sue. Please don't sue.
Arun Gupta returns to the show and This is Revolution's Jason Myles joins me to start talking about "cultural nationalism" and Portland cultural food trends, but expands to talk about the food and culture of the hinterlands, as both Jason and Arun have been chefs. What's the difference between cooking on an oil rig on the Gulf Coast vs cooking for a fracking town up in North Dakota? Tune in and find out!
We also learn the history of fish & chips and tater tots, so hang on!
- Check out This is Revolution: -podcast: https://bitterlake.podbean.com/ -Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCG9WtLyoP9QU8sxuIfxk3eg -Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/BitterLakePresents
Referenced: Arun Gupta's "The Walmart Working Class", Socialist Register, Oct 2013 - https://socialistregister.com/index.php/srv/article/view/20190
Support Arun's reporting: https://www.patreon.com/arunguptareporter
Help us make the show! http://www.patreon.com/givingthemic - Find us on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/givingthemic - Questions/comments/suggestions for great local Korean food: givingthemic@gmail.com - http://facebook.com/givingthemic/ - - Main theme by The Mysterious Breakfast'r Cereal on SoundCloud @chiptheme - - All items trademarked and copyright their respective owners. Please don't sue. Please don't sue. Please don't sue.
Since the 1960s, a constant feature in American life have been the culture wars. We talk with Professor Andrew Hartman about his work documenting the history of the culture wars, how they crossover with moral panics, and his upcoming book on Marx in America.
Hartman's book is War for the Soul of America A History of the Culture Wars, available here: https://www.powells.com/book/war-for-the-soul-of-america-a-history-of-the-culture-wars-9780226254500
Find Prof Hartman on twitter here: https://twitter.com/HartmanAndrew
Recs: Raymond Williams - Culture and Society Sven-Eric Liedman - A World to Win: The Life and Works of Karl Marx Mary Gabriel - Love and Capital: Karl and Jenny Marx and the Birth of a Revolution Louis Malle's Atlantic City The Criterion Channel The Leibniz–Clarke Correspondence The Mitchells vs the Machines Karl Mannheim - Ideology And Utopia: An Introduction to the Sociology of Knowledge - Help us make the show! http://www.patreon.com/givingthemic - Find us on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/givingthemic - Questions/comments/suggestions for great local Korean food: givingthemic@gmail.com - http://facebook.com/givingthemic/ - - Main theme by The Mysterious Breakfast'r Cereal on SoundCloud @chiptheme - - All items trademarked and copyright their respective owners. Please don't sue. Please don't sue. Please don't sue.
Budtenders and weed distros, organize! Savina & Jess from the Cannabis Workers Coalition join us to talk about providing a critical resource to a new industry!
Check out their #GardenLife event on Sunday(May 16th, 2021) from 11A - 4:20PM at Somewhere PDX Dispensary in the Pearl District.
-Also, find out more about the Oregon Cannabis Equity Act and Farmworkers OT at their Action Alerts page: https://www.cannabisworkerscoalition.org/action-alerts/
Check out their workers' resources here: https://www.cannabisworkerscoalition.org/
Recs: The new Dinosaur Jr album Shadow & Bone Londrelle's _Stay Free_, https://soundcloud.com/londrelle/sets/stay-free
and more!
Help us make the show! http://www.patreon.com/givingthemic - Find us on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/givingthemic - Questions/comments/suggestions for great local Korean food: givingthemic@gmail.com - http://facebook.com/givingthemic/ - - Main theme by The Mysterious Breakfast'r Cereal on SoundCloud @chiptheme - - All items trademarked and copyright their respective owners. Please don't sue. Please don't sue. Please don't sue.
J. Posadas! Juan Peron! Leon Trotsky! We come back to the topic of Posadism, only this time we talk to the guy who wrote the book. A.M. Gittlitz (a.k.a. AP Andy from the Antifada) joins us to talk about his book _I Want to Believe: Posadism, UFOs, and Apocalypse Communism_
We discuss J. Posadas, Juan Peron and Lopez Rega, cults, and what does a revolutionary look like now?
Pick up Andy's book here: https://redemmas.org/titles/34691-i-want-to-believe--posadism-and-leftwing-ufology
Check out Andy's substack here: https://gittlitz.substack.com/
Listen to the Antifada! https://podtail.com/en/podcast/the-antifada/
Help us make the show! http://www.patreon.com/givingthemic - Find us on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/givingthemic - Questions/comments/suggestions for great local Korean food: givingthemic@gmail.com - http://facebook.com/givingthemic/ - - Main theme by The Mysterious Breakfast'r Cereal on SoundCloud @chiptheme - - All items trademarked and copyright their respective owners. Please don't sue. Please don't sue. Please don't sue.
Market worship in the form of deregulation of markets is killing people, most recently in Texas. We talk to heterodox economics professors and authors (and UMKC alumni) Rob Larson, Erik Dean, and Mitch Green about wtf happened with Gamestonks, why the Texas energy grid did what it did, and exactly why do Libertarians argue like that?!
Help us make the show! http://www.patreon.com/givingthemic - Find us on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/givingthemic - Questions/comments/suggestions for great local Korean food: givingthemic@gmail.com - http://facebook.com/givingthemic/ - - Main theme by The Mysterious Breakfast'r Cereal on SoundCloud @chiptheme - - All items trademarked and copyright their respective owners. Please don't sue. Please don't sue. Please don't sue.
Worker-owned Cooperatives! Cooperative board games! Garrett and I talk to Brian Van Slyke, one of the co-founders and game designers from the TESA Collective. We cover how to do a leftist board game, publishing a game during Covid/Uprising/wildfires, life in a worker co-op, and far more! Has Professor Richard Wolff played this game yet? Check it out, and check out TESA's games: https://www.tesacollective.com/#works
Check out their video "Own The Change: Building Economic Democracy One Worker Co-op at a Time" at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8G1-SYMatNc
Music in the episode: Defiance, Ohio's "This Feels Better", No Idea Records
Help us make the show! http://www.patreon.com/givingthemic - Find us on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/givingthemic - Questions/comments/suggestions for great local Korean food: givingthemic@gmail.com - http://facebook.com/givingthemic/ - - Main theme by The Mysterious Breakfast'r Cereal on SoundCloud @chiptheme - - All items trademarked and copyright their respective owners. Please don't sue. Please don't sue. Please don't sue.
We attempt to talk about the year 2020 (recorded at before Jan 1), and sorta fail, but we talk about Cyberpunk a lot. And Billy Idol.
Lots of clips from the Billy Idol album, too.
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Sean and Venu from the Portland Unemployed Workers Union join us to talk about the history of unemployed people organizing, starting a UWC in Portland, and give tips on how you can help start one, too.
Plus we talk about Adbusters magazine for like 30 minutes for some reason. Not sure why on that one.
- Help us make the show! http://www.patreon.com/givingthemic - Find us on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/givingthemic - Questions/comments/suggestions for great local Korean food: givingthemic@gmail.com - http://facebook.com/givingthemic/ - - Main theme by The Mysterious Breakfast'r Cereal on SoundCloud @chiptheme - - All items trademarked and copyright their respective owners. Please don't sue. Please don't sue. Please don't sue.
Organize your building! Remember all that Rent Strike talk early on during Quarantine? Curious about how you'd even begin to organize for something like that? Mario & Rebekah from the North Portland Tenants Collection and Cici from DontEvictPDX join us to talk about the history of tenant unions, how the NPTC got started, and even give Jacob some tips on how to begin.
Check out the North Portland Tenants Collective here: https://www.nopotenants.org/
Follow DontEvictPDX here: https://twitter.com/DontEvictPDX
"KC Tenants chain themselves to Jackson County Courthouse" from KCTV5 News: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mRA2eVr69z
Support the protestor bail funds in your city: https://bailfunds.github.io/
Help us make the show! http://www.patreon.com/givingthemic - Find us on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/givingthemic - Questions/comments/suggestions for great local Korean food: givingthemic@gmail.com - http://facebook.com/givingthemic/ - - Main theme by The Mysterious Breakfast'r Cereal on SoundCloud @chiptheme - - All items trademarked and copyright their respective owners. Please don't sue. Please don't sue. Please don't sue.
Part three of the interviews of Portland delegates to the 2019 DSA National Convention. This time we talk with Ben from the Libertarian Socialist Caucus.
The 2021 National Convention is being planned now, happening all online. These interviews will hopefully help inform that process by giving a glimpse of what folks who survived that weekend in August 2019 thought about it.
Part 1 is available here: https://soundcloud.com/givingthemic/73-snapshot-of-a-movement-2019-dsa-natl-conv-part-1
Support the protestor bail funds in your city: https://bailfunds.github.io/
If you're curious about Portland DSA, find out more here: https://portlanddsa.org/
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This is the second of three episodes of conversations recorded at the end of the 2019 National Convention of the Democratic Socialists of America, held in Atlanta that August. The 2021 National Convention is being planned now, happening all online. These interviews will hopefully help inform that process by giving a glimpse of what folks who survived that weekend in August 2019 thought about it.
This episode features Elizabeth and Sadie from the Libertarian-Socialist Caucus of the Portland DSA chapter. They helped plan the group travel and served as chapter representatives.
Part 1 is available here: https://soundcloud.com/givingthemic/73-snapshot-of-a-movement-2019-dsa-natl-conv-part-1
Part 3 is available here: https://soundcloud.com/givingthemic/73-snapshot-of-a-movement-2019-dsa-natl-conv-part-3
Support the protestor bail funds in your city: https://bailfunds.github.io/
If you're curious about Portland DSA, find out more here: https://portlanddsa.org/
Help us make the show! http://www.patreon.com/givingthemic - Find us on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/givingthemic - Questions/comments/suggestions for great local Korean food: givingthemic@gmail.com - http://facebook.com/givingthemic/ - - Main theme by The Mysterious Breakfast'r Cereal on SoundCloud @chiptheme - - All items trademarked and copyright their respective owners. Please don't sue. Please don't sue. Please don't sue.
This is the first of three episodes of conversations recorded at the end of the 2019 National Convention of the Democratic Socialists of America, held in Atlanta that August. The 2021 National Convention is being planned now, happening all online. These interviews will hopefully help inform that process by giving a glimpse of what folks who survived that weekend in August 2019 thought about it.
Voices featured are Abi from NYC, Natasha and Laura from Portland, Mags from MetroDC, and the Washington Post's Dave Weigel. (He's the one who talks about covering political events and his favorite Peter Gabriel-era Genesis album.)
Part 2 is available here: https://soundcloud.com/givingthemic/73-snapshot-of-a-movement-2019-dsa-natl-conv-part-2
Support the protestor bail funds in your city: https://bailfunds.github.io/
Help us make the show! http://www.patreon.com/givingthemic - Find us on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/givingthemic - Questions/comments/suggestions for great local Korean food: givingthemic@gmail.com - http://facebook.com/givingthemic/ - - Main theme by The Mysterious Breakfast'r Cereal on SoundCloud @chiptheme - - All items trademarked and copyright their respective owners. Please don't sue. Please don't sue. Please don't sue.
The second half of our talk with Pat & Ben from "I Learned Nothing", and we actually get round to talking Nietzsche this time! It's slightly less silly, but we do talk about ressentiment, the Last Man, could Marx and Nietzsche have tolerated each other, and much more.
Check out I Learned Nothing at https://www.bodytapeintl.com/i-learned-nothing
Support the protestor bail funds in your city: https://bailfunds.github.io/
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Ben and Pat from "I Learned Nothing: A Philosophy Podcast for Dullards" join Garrett and I for a very silly episode where we sort of attempt to talk about Nietzsche and fail miserably. BUT! We talk about many related things along the way, like Alan Moore comics, Disneyworld trying to open during Covid, Hellblazer, podcast cats, etc. It's well worth your time. Probably.
Check out I Learned Nothing at https://www.bodytapeintl.com/i-learned-nothing
Support the protestor bail funds in your city: https://bailfunds.github.io/
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Author/professor Tad Delay joins us to talk about his book/podcast _Against: What Does The White Evangelical Want?_, why a lot of Evangelicals seem to have trouble distinguishing Jesus from white supremacists, how hypocrisy is a hang-up for liberals but a pleasure for conservatives, and more.
Support the protestor bail funds in your city: https://bailfunds.github.io/
Tad's Patreon is at https://www.patreon.com/taddelay
Check out Tad's book-in-podcast-form: https://podtail.com/en/podcast/tad-delay/
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What do you know--turns out getting millions of kids and other students to immediately switch to an all-online educational environment doesn't work so well. We're joined by Derick Varn, high school teacher in SLC, Melisa Crosby, community college teacher in Portland, and my sister Beth, middle school teacher in Raleigh, to share notes about what works and how most things don't when trying to communicate information thru screens. We also get into some education theory and studies about how online learning has an efficacy of maybe 40% of the best of times.
Our previous episode on college education during Covid: https://soundcloud.com/givingthemic/66-college-under-quarantine-ft-ami-sommariva-and-ben-burgis
A useful resource: https://oregonyouthline.org/ The Oregon Youthline gets calls from all over the country. It is ONLY for people 21 and younger. - Check out Derick Varn's podcasts Pop the Left and many more here: https://dietsoap.podomatic.com/ - Episode graphic from Kelly at the Onion: https://www.theonion.com/remote-possibilities-1843704145 - Find us on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/givingthemic - Questions/comments/suggestions for great local Korean food: givingthemic@gmail.com - http://facebook.com/givingthemic/ - - Main theme by The Mysterious Breakfast'r Cereal on SoundCloud @chiptheme - - All items trademarked and copyright their respective owners. Please don't sue. Please don't sue. Please don't sue.
Checking in with our old friend and former co-host Nat who survived a case of the Covid. We talk about watching asian dramas, video games to survive the lockdown, and more.
Check out Nat's podcast: Metamashina at http://www.metamashina.com
The 2nd part of our episode: Returning heterodox economists Erik and Mitch join us again to go over the anemic stimulus, how much private equity is a vampire squid, and what the hell Modern Monetary Theory actually is. We also touch on some historic bits too.
Part 1 is available here: https://soundcloud.com/givingthemic/67-stimulus-mmt-how-bad-private-equity-is-and-more-part-1
The whole conversation is available thru Patreon at Http://www.patreon.com/givingthemic
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Part 1 of our new episode: Returning heterodox economists Erik and Mitch join us again to go over the anemic stimulus, how much private equity is a vampire squid, and what the hell Modern Monetary Theory actually is. We also touch on some historic bits too. Part 2 is available here: https://soundcloud.com/givingthemic/67-objections-to-mmt-keynes-the-new-deal-and-more-ft-erik-dean-and-mitch-green-part-2
The whole conversation is available thru Patreon at Http://www.patreon.com/givingthemic
Find us on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/givingthemic
Questions/comments/suggestions for great local Korean food: givingthemic@gmail.com
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Separate from all the grade school closures, how do you change all your classes online if you're teaching college students? Profs. Ami Sommariva from Portland State and Ben Burgis from Perimeter College at Georgia State join to talk about trying to adjust classes and curricula to fit the current moment.
Help us make the show! Get early access to episodes and on the cat pic mailing list at http://www.patreon.com/givingthemic - Find us on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/givingthemic - Questions/comments/suggestions for great local Korean food: givingthemic@gmail.com - http://facebook.com/givingthemic/ - - Main theme by The Mysterious Breakfast'r Cereal on SoundCloud @chiptheme - - All items trademarked and copyright their respective owners. Please don't sue. Please don't sue. Please don't sue.
Jacob, Garrett, & I recorded a group chat from our respective bunkers last week to talk about the New Now.
And we make more than a few references to the Mitchell & Webb "Quiz Broadcast" sketches, as shown here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jJ203Q-lyk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22mt0cVyW5c
Join up with a local mutual aid and community support network in your area if you can. Here's a national (American) document listing resources available right now.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Rcan4C_e6OBFBI5bUn7MtYK74Ab-WarxyJmDvZUI_YA
Your own countries should have similar networks forming. Please stay safe, stay home, stay sane, and wear a mask if you do have to go outdoors.
Nat wasn't able to record with us this time, so you should check out her show at https://metamashina.com/
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Another classic track from 2017. This is the episode that got us mentioned in the New Yorker. New episode is coming very soon. Stay safe, stay sane.
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On this episode, Jacob(@jacobmercy) joins Natasha(@ashesforfoxes), Garrett(@comradegarrett), and I talk about information overload which merges into Watchmen, Overwatch, a mention of Comet the Superhorse & Walter Benjamin, and a buncha more dumb jokes.
The name we’re trying to pronounce is “ Bill Sienkiewicz,” whom you can find at http://www.billsienkiewiczart.com/
Ep was recorded in mid-September.
Show notes here: http://goo.gl/QCSXJZ
Hi all you folks stuck inside! We're re-posting our first chat that we did with C Derick Varn, way back in late 2017. There's plenty of timeless advice here and we'll think you'll enjoy it.
Check out Derick's new podcast Pop the Left! from the Zero Squared pod feed: http://dietsoap.podomatic.com
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Albert Lee is the candidate for the Democratic Primary in Oregon's 3rd District, endorsed by the Portland DSA, Our Revolution, and many more local progressive(or better) groups. He joined us in late February to talk about why he decided to primary the incumbent Democrat, the politics of bikes lanes and trying to help houseless folks, and the importance of the Bernie Sanders campaign.
Check out Albert's campaign at https://albertlee2020.com/
Upcoming event: Feb 29th at Kelly's Olympian with Albert Lee & Paige Kreisman in Downtown Portland, 8pm.
Kshama Sawant at the Feb 17th Tacoma Dome event: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bM8OXfsR_WA
Ending track: Killer Mike https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ikgh4JbAWUU
Speech taken from the Bennett College Town Hall in Greensboro, NC - Sept 20, 2019 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tW9V7eWbZbg
Also the book I'm referring to is Walter Karp's _Indispensible Enemies: The Politics of Misrule in America_ - https://www.powells.com/book/-9781879957138
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Don't stare into the rightwing youtube abyss. Other things covered in Part 2 of Derick Varn on topics like why did 1968 did or why did all those national revolutions not go socialist. That any much more.
Ending music: Scritti Politti
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Derick Varn returns for his semi-annual visit to talk about dealing with complicated old beliefs and why he restarted his podcast Pop the Left! with past guest Douglas Lain from Zero Books.
This is part 1 of the full conversation. The whole episode is available for Patrons so you can subscribe at Patreon.com/givingthemic
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Dante Douglas (Videodante) joined me to talk about the state of labor in games making today and the need for organizing, the potential of co-ops, Gameworkers Unite, etc.
Check out Dante's games at https://videodante.itch.io/ and writing at http://dante.cool/
Recorded Sept 2019 at the XOXO Fest in Portland.
Mentioned in the episode:
Emma Kinema's talk at 2019 XOXO : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHp_DwVm2EA
Letter from an EA Spouse (Nov 2004) - https://boards.fool.com/letter-from-an-ea-spouse-long-21588406.aspx
Jason Shreier's Inside Rockstar Games' Culture of Crunch (Oct 2018) - https://kotaku.com/inside-rockstar-games-culture-of-crunch-1829936466
Gameworkers Unite! - https://www.gameworkersunite.org/
The Independent Workers of Great Britain - https://iwgb.org.uk/
GDC 2019 - "Embracing the Co-Op Studio Model in Indie Games" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zxNfHl-xmM
XOXO 2019's Arcade - https://xoxofest.com/2019/schedule/arcade
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As a bit of fun, I interviewed both my and my partner's nephews about their fave thing in the world, a game called the Fortnite. These recordings are the result. The audio gets a little noisy at times because you have over-energetic younglings tapping on handheld mics, but hopefully you'll make it past that bit. Happy Holidays!
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Part two of our talk about UK politics and life in scotland with True Life Scotsman Sean(http://twitter.com/worstfriendband). We discuss transphobia in the UK, the Time for Inclusive Education (TIE) campaign, why the Guardian is not a left-wing paper, what IRN BRU actually tastes like, the fun that is Buckfast, and openly insulting the Red Hot Chilli Pipers.
Miss Part 1? Check it out here: https://soundcloud.com/givingthemic/ep60-the-true-scotsman-fallacy-part-1ft-sean-from-theworstfriend
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Giving us a now hilariously dated overview of UK and Scottish politics, Sean of The Worst Friend(https://twitter.com/worstfriendband) joined us back in the late summer. He's an organizer who moved to Portland from Glasgow and takes great pleasure in attempting to explain just WTF is going on over there. Topics also covered include Brexit, Scottish Independence, how the Labour Party screwed over Scottish Labour, Boris Johnson, certain Royals and their alleged connections to Jeffrey Epstein, etc.
Check out Sean's band at https://theworstfriend.bandcamp.com/
Their latest tape is here: https://theworstfriend.bandcamp.com/merch/the-green-man-tape
Part 2 coming soon!
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BACK after a prolonged absence, we follow up on previous episodes by having back Dawn(@dorkvania) from our very first episode, Ben Burgis(@benburgis) from earlier this year, and Candy joining us once again to talk about their love(and critiques) of the X-files, Darin Morgan episodes, and memories of growing up in the 90s. Also, we get into how weirdly racist and transphobic the show could get.
Ending tune: Bree Sharp's "David Duchovny" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=upRhsDUIDSE
(R.I.P Beto's campaign)
Rec:
Lizzo's new album
ContraPoints' vid on "The Darkness" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtj7LDYaufM
Check out Ben's writing at Jacobin: https://jacobinmag.com/author/ben-burgis
Check out Dawn's photography work at https://dorkvania.com/
Are you listening to us from SE Asia or Eastern Europe? Drop us a line and let us know how the hell you possibly found the show.
Previous episodes of note:
Dawn's previous appearance and our very first episode: https://soundcloud.com/givingthemic/giving-the-mic-to-the-wrong-person-ep-1-smaller-file
Where Ben and Candy first mentioned wanting to talk about the Xfiles for a full episode: https://soundcloud.com/givingthemic/ep-53-part-1-arguing-with-ben-burgis
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SEE TIM IN PORTLAND! Thursday(9/26) at 7:30 at Powells downtown.
Tim Faust(@crulge) returns to the show to do a properly roundtable discussion with local Portland healthcare activists and disability advocates to talk about his new book, Garrett & I are joined by Adam from the Portland DSA Medicare-for-All campaign, Betsy from Portland Jobs with Justice, and Nico from Real Choice Initiative here with Tim on the line.
Topics we cover: the need for health justice beyond just healthcare, the need for disability and trans rights as part of any actual Single-Payer plan, problems with thinking of healthcare only in marketing terms, nursing homes acting like prisons, the successful efforts of Reclaim Idaho and the Maine People's Alliance.
Tim's book: https://healthjusticenow.com/ _Health Justice Now: Single Payer and What Comes Next_
Available here at Powells, and support their union ILWU Local 5: https://www.powells.com/book/-9781612197166/?partnerID=35751
Check out Tim's booktour: He'll be in Seattle on Wednesday(9/25) https://twitter.com/crulge/status/1171989316761006080
If you're in Portland, come for the protest on Friday(9/24) at Senator Ron Wyden's office to call for Medicare For All:
https://actionnetwork.org/events/picket-of-senator-wydens-health-care-of-the-future-event
https://www.facebook.com/events/391221361560951/
Recs:
R. Stevie Moore - https://rsteviemoore.bandcamp.com/ Rebel Galaxy: Outlaw Dogbreth - "When You Call My Name" Tommy Douglas - the "Mouseland" speech Mark Hill - The Antifa Comic Book: 100 Years of Fascism and Antifa Movements Octavia's Brood Frank Zappa & the Mothers of Invention - Freak Out Adolph Reed - "Marx, Race, and Neoliberalism" - https://libcom.org/files/Marx,%20Race%20and%20Neoliberalism%20-%20Adolph%20Reed.pdf
Break: Kate Bush - "Cloudbursting"
Ending: Tommy Douglas' "Mouseland" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdwySCMovHk
National Nurses United's M4A campaigns - https://www.nationalnursesunited.org/medicare-for-all
The National Single Payer Strategy 2019 Conference in Portland, Oct 18-29: https://www.healthcare-now.org/strategy-conference/2019-portland/
Real Choice Initiative - http://realchoiceoregon.com/
Join DSA - https://www.dsausa.org/
Our episode with Max Elbaum: https://soundcloud.com/givingthemic/56-max-elbaum-and-lessons-learned-from-the-new-communist-movement-and-the-sds
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Just in time for their PacNW stand-up tour, stars of comedy and pod and Means TV, Jake Flores(@feraljokes) and Sara June(www.heysarajune.com) join us for a chat! Topics covered: MeansTV, leftist podcasting, comedy stuff, "Everything's getting rebooted, even Mic Dicta," making culture as a part of leftist organizing, and how as a society will we be able to comprehend that dang JOKER movie?!
Means TV - http://means.media and on youtube: https://www.youtube.com/user/saraj00n Help build Means TV: https://actionnetwork.org/fundraising/lets-build-means-tv https://twitter.com/means_tv https://www.instagram.com/means_tv/ https://www.facebook.com/meansTV/
Jake's podcasts: -Pod Damn America https://soundcloud.com/poddamnamerica and Why You Mad? https://soundcloud.com/whyyoumadpod
Sara June's show: https://www.highpriestesscomedy.com/
Tour Dates:
Sept 11: Olympia, Vomity at Le Voyeur, 8pm. Sept 12: Seattle, The Gateway Show at Club Comedy, 8pm Sept 13: Portland, The Firebrand Collective Benefit for Anarres Infoshop at Social Justice Action Center(400 SE 12th), 7pm Sept 14: Portland, High Priestess at 21st Avenue Kitchen & Bar, 7:30pm Sept 14: Portland, The Gateway Show at Funhouse Lounge, 10pm - The Venezuela vid we reference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tBzNa3Pack - Jonah Ray's Weird Al covers album - _You Can't Call Me Al_ on Asian Man Records - https://asianmanrecords.bandcamp.com/album/you-cant-call-me-al - Recs: -Red Menace -Rev Left Radio -Houseboat -RVIVR -Megan Keester -Eddie Pepitone's "In Ruins" -Freida -Sun Ra -Ann Peebles -Lucinda Williams -Arash -Dogbreth -I Learned Nothing
Ending tune: Weird Al Yankovic - "Foil"
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Max Elbaum from Verso Books, author of _Revolution in the Air: Sixties Radicals Turn to Lenin, Mao and Che_, was in Portland last month and sat for an interview with myself and Kevin from Regrettable Century. Stay tuned for his story about the Weather Underground and Bob Avakian!
Here’s the website for Max’s book: https://revolutionintheair.org
Max's interview in Jacobin: "Learning from the New Communist Movement" https://www.jacobinmag.com/2018/09/max-elbaum-new-communist-movement-socialism-organizing
Kevin's podcast: http://regrettablecentury.buzzsprout.com/
Max Elbaum's panel talk with members of Portland DSA's Red Caucus: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_01IQn0MU8
Opening sound clip: "Communists on Campus: The Weather Underground" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tChf9wJKARA
Recs:
-Panopticon
-David Blight's _Frederick Douglass: Prophet of Freedom_
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Candy & I spoke with author/organizer Eric Blanc in studio in mid-May 2019. Eric has published Red State Revolt: The Teachers’ Strike Wave and Working-Class Politics with Verso and Jacobin.
Find the book here: https://www.versobooks.com/books/2955-red-state-revolt
You can find out more what Eric's up to at https://ericblanc.org/
or follow him on the socials at https://twitter.com/_ericblanc
Recs:
-Gilmore Girls -Superstore -I Think You Should Leave
-Ending theme: Doris Wilson's "Big Flame (Is Gonna Break My Heart in Two)"
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Paige Kreisman(https://twitter.com/PaigeKreisman) is a candidate running for Oregon House District 42. She's the first trans person to run for state-wide office in Oregon, the first candidate ever endorsed by Portland DSA, an Army veteran, and tenant organizer. Check out her campaign at http://www.paige2020.com
Candy & I talked to her and Bryan from her campaign and the DSA Electoral Working Group about her work, how she wound in up Oregon after escaping small-town North Carolina, enlisting in combat infantry, witnessing U.S. imperialism and (pretty much) slave labor in Qatar.
We also get into why you want to run socialist candidates for office, and the utility of the Bernie 2020 campaign for movement building.
The Oregon primary vote is scheduled for May 19, 2020.
CW: for suicide talk, just a heads up.
The first Portland DSA Brake Light Clinic is happening on Saturday, July 6th, from 11-4pm at 5020 NE MLK. Spread the word and help folks get their signal lights checked out for free! https://www.facebook.com/events/452421528874665/
Recs:
-Those Scoot scoots you see around town -Airtable -Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night -Outer Wilds
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Part 2! Ben Burgis(Rutgers prof, Zero Books author, Ben Shapiro debunker/mocker) joins us(Candy, Jacob, and Jeremy) to talk about his new book from Zero Books, _Give Them an Argument: Logic for the Left_. Why do you actually need an argument versus just wanting to snark and dunk on or morally shame somebody? Listen and find out! Recorded in mid-April.
Part 1: https://soundcloud.com/givingthemic/ep-53-part-1-arguing-with-ben-burgis
Also covered: hockey as the One True Sport, Aaron Sorkin and why stirring speeches can't do much, university faculty organizing, and even a bit about the Xfiles.
Check out Ben's book here: https://www.johnhuntpublishing.com/zer0-books/our-books/give-them-an-argument
Ben on Twitter: https://twitter.com/BenBurgis
Ben's is on the Michael Brooks Show every Tuesday for a weekly Debunk! https://michaelbrooksshow.libsyn.com/
Check out Ben's Youtube channel! https://www.youtube.com/user/benburgis1
Check out the Antifada podcast, especially if you're a fan of Jamie from Sam Seder's Majority Report. https://podtail.com/en/podcast/the-antifada/
This is the 2nd part of a two-parter. The whole conversation is available now at our Patreon at
http://www.patreon.com/givingthemic
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Ben Burgis(Rutgers prof, Zero Books author, Ben Shapiro debunker/mocker) joins us(Candy, Jacob, and Jeremy) to talk about his new book from Zero Books, _Give Them an Argument: Logic for the Left_. Why do you actually need an argument versus just wanting to snark and dunk on or morally shame somebody? Listen and find out!
Check out Part 2 here: https://soundcloud.com/givingthemic/ep-53-part-2-arguing-with-ben-burgis
Also covered: hockey as the One True Sport, Aaron Sorkin and why stirring speeches can't do much, university faculty organizing, and even a bit about the Xfiles.
Also, the only episode we've ever recorded to feature the phrase "universal basic bitcoin."
Check out Ben's book here: https://www.johnhuntpublishing.com/zer0-books/our-books/give-them-an-argument
Ben on Twitter: https://twitter.com/BenBurgis
Ben's is on the Michael Brooks Show every Tuesday for a weekly Debunk! https://michaelbrooksshow.libsyn.com/
This is the first part of a two-parter. The whole conversation is available now at our Patreon at
http://www.patreon.com/givingthemic
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Part 2! The 1st-ever NW Unity Conference for the Democratic Socialists of America was held in early April, 2019, in Portland, Oregon.
Check out Part 1 here: https://soundcloud.com/givingthemic/ep52-the-dsa-nw-unity-conference-part-1
Members from chapters around the NW(from Anchorage to Billings to Eugene and more) converged on a cold rainy weekend to chat and plot and socialize. I talked to Ashley Gallagher, Portland organizer of the event, and members from the Seattle, Tacoma, and Whatcom County chapters. What are people working on? What are they excited about? Tenant organizing, ecosocialism, support local candidates, and all.
We also talk comics, why Disney / Marvel seems to fetishize the military in its movies, and more.
Mentioned: The Hellhole, Seattle DSA's newsletter -https://seattledsa.org/dispatches/hellhole/
Shaun Scott, campaigning for District 4 in Seattle: -https://twitter.com/ElectScott2019 -https://scott2019.com/
Chanan Suarez, campaigning for Bellingham City Council: -https://twitter.com/ChananSuarez
The Tacoma Tenants Organizing Cmte: -https://www.facebook.com/TacomaTenants/
The Bellingham Tenants Union: -https://bellinghamtenantsunion.org/
Rightwing Uncle Sam on I-5 in Chehalis: -http://www.chronline.com/life/i--s-uncle-sam-billboard-years-and-still-ticked/article_0aa401c4-b8df-11e7-b2d8-034b8858abfb.html -https://www.roadsideamerica.com/tip/6002?offset=5
the Uncaged Antology -https://www.ashleywarrenwrites.com/uncaged
D20 Dames - An all-ages D&D podcast handcrafted by witches. -https://twitter.com/d20Dames -https://d20dames.com/
DM of None - https://www.dmofnone.com/podcast/ - Special thanks to Roy Zhang for additional editing help. - Questions/comments/suggestions for great local Korean food: givingthemic@gmail.com - http://facebook.com/givingthemic/ - http://Twitter.com/givingthemic/ - Help us make the show! http://www.patreon.com/givingthemic
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Check out part 2 here: https://soundcloud.com/givingthemic/ep52-part-2-the-dsa-nw-unity-conference
The 1st-ever NW Unity Conference for the Democratic Socialists of America was held in early April, 2019, in Portland, Oregon.
Members from chapters around the NW(from Anchorage to Billings to Eugene and more) converged on a cold rainy weekend to chat and plot and socialize. I talked to Ashley Gallagher, Portland organizer of the event, and members from the Seattle, Tacoma, and Whatcom County chapters. What are people working on? What are they excited about? Tenant organizing, ecosocialism, support local candidates, and all.
This is the first 1/2 of the conversation. The 2nd part will be released later on, but you can hear the whole thing by supporting us on Patreon at http://www.patreon.com/givingthemic
Mentioned: The Hellhole, Seattle DSA's newsletter -https://seattledsa.org/dispatches/hellhole/
Shaun Scott, campaigning for District 4 in Seattle: -https://twitter.com/ElectScott2019 -https://scott2019.com/
Chanan Suarez, campaigning for Bellingham City Council: -https://twitter.com/ChananSuarez
The Tacoma Tenants Organizing Cmte: -https://www.facebook.com/TacomaTenants/
The Bellingham Tenants Union: -https://bellinghamtenantsunion.org/
Rightwing Uncle Sam on I-5 in Chehalis: -http://www.chronline.com/life/i--s-uncle-sam-billboard-years-and-still-ticked/article_0aa401c4-b8df-11e7-b2d8-034b8858abfb.html -https://www.roadsideamerica.com/tip/6002?offset=5
the Uncaged Antology -https://www.ashleywarrenwrites.com/uncaged
D20 Dames - An all-ages D&D podcast handcrafted by witches. -https://twitter.com/d20Dames -https://d20dames.com/
DM of None - https://www.dmofnone.com/podcast/ - Special thanks to Roy Zhang for additional editing help. - Questions/comments/suggestions for great local Korean food: givingthemic@gmail.com - http://facebook.com/givingthemic/ - http://Twitter.com/givingthemic/ - Help us make the show! http://www.patreon.com/givingthemic
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Let me be blunt: American journalism is in crisis, thanks to funding cuts, newspaper closures, and more. Veteran reporters Albert Laurier and Don McIntosh join us and Candy returns to help bring the labor POV. Various subjects: what's going on, getting into "objectivity" vs "subjectivity," how Professionalism changes the way politics get covered, editorial standards, being a freelancer, and more.
Read Albert's writing at https://medium.com/@TheDoctor50 and https://twitter.com/CriticInc
Read Don's writing at https://nwlaborpress.org and https://twitter.com/nwlaborpress
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Part 3 of 3 of our extended conversation with Derick Varn. The full talk is up at Patreon at http://www.patreon.com/givingthemic/
C Derick Varn finishes his extended talk with us by getting into eco-fascism, a topic brought back into relevance by the Christchurch murderer. This is part 3 of a 3 part episode.
Links:
Derick Varn's previous appearance: http://goo.gl/RHtnGy
Also check out the earlier part: https://soundcloud.com/givingthemic/ep-50-varn-ishing-the-truth-part-2-w-c-derick-varn
Varn's first collection of poetry _Apocalyptics_ is out from Unlikely Press. http://www.unlikelystories.org/unlikely-books/apocalyptics
Check out Varn's podcasts Symptomatic Redness here: https://dietsoap.podomatic.com/
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Part 2 of our extended conversation with Derick Varn. The full talk is up at Patreon at http://www.patreon.com/givingthemic/
C Derick Varn continues to give us a primer on how to interpret conspiratorial claims, including: wondering why _has_ conspiracy culture resurged in popularity lately, how to help people handle ambiguity, why ethos is handy in person-to-person coversations, 9/11 stuff, Bayesian probability. This is part 2 of a 3 part episode.
Links:
Derick Varn's previous appearance: http://goo.gl/RHtnGy
Varn's first collection of poetry _Apocalyptics_ is out from Unlikely Press. http://www.unlikelystories.org/unlikely-books/apocalyptics
Check out Varn's podcasts Symptomatic Redness here: https://dietsoap.podomatic.com/
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Part 1 of our extended conversation with Derick Varn. The full talk is up at Patreon at http://www.patreon.com/givingthemic/
C Derick Varn returns to give us a primer on how to interpret conspiratorial claims, and takes on a glorious history of what certain intelligence services were up to after WWII and why most coverups aren't to hide secretive evil dealings but usually just obscuring fuck-ups. Topics covered include: Rambo 3, Predator, Rogerian Arguments, George Lincoln Rockwell, business conspiracies nowhere near as sexy as government conspiracies, why did the 9/11 Report get limited from the start, parsimony as useful tool, and so much more.
Links:
Richard Aoki as FBI informant: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NE9HRp0RIV8
Heavy Radicals: : The FBI's Secret War on America's Maoists The Revolutionary Union / Revolutionary Communist Party 1968-1980 - http://www.zero-books.net/books/heavy-radicals
The Richard Wolff video from 2008 I referred to: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HTkEBIoxBA
- Derick Varn's previous appearance: http://goo.gl/RHtnGy
Varn's first collection of poetry _Apocalyptics_ is out from Unlikely Press. http://www.unlikelystories.org/unlikely-books/apocalyptics
Check out Varn's podcasts Symptomatic Redness here: https://dietsoap.podomatic.com/
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Here's a teaser of the bonus for our episode with the Regrettable Century. Support us at our Patreon to get regular early releases and bonus audio.
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For BONUS audio from this episode, check out the Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/posts/bonus-audio-for-25684365
3/4 of the Regrettable Century(Kevin, Chris, and Jenny) join us in a pod crossover to talk about their fave subjects, revolutionary pessimism and Gothic Marxism. We contrast it with utopian science fiction(like Kim Stanley Robinson), ask if there is a Higher Power("IT WAS ME, AUSTIN! IT WAS ME ALL ALONG!"), podcasts as radicalizing vector, Texas, shit-talking militant atheists, also get into the future, automation, and human flourishing. That kinda thing.
Relevant bits:
Their ep that's related to this: https://www.buzzsprout.com/220523/952305-gothic-marxism-and-marxist-romanticism-embracing-all-that-makes-us-human-part-i-of-ii
China Mieville on Marxism & Halloween: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=paCqiY1jwqc
China Mieville's Salvage quarterly: http://salvage.zone/
Svetlana Alexievich's The Unwomanly Face of War: An Oral History of Women in World War II
Subscribe to the Regrettable Century: https://www.buzzsprout.com/220523
Dirty Pinko Commie: https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/dirty-pinko-commie/id1448981303
The Skeptic Magazine devoted to Jordan Peterson: https://www.skeptic.com/magazine/archives/23.3/
Recs:
Cuck Philosophy - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSkzHxIcfoEr69MWBdo0ppg
David Graeber's Debt: The First 5000 years
Silvia Federici's Caliban & the Witch
West Wing (boooooo)
Astra Taylor's "What is Democracy?"
Fede Alvarez's "Evil Dead (2013)"
The Sopranos
Panopticon's "The Scars of Man on the Once Nameless Wilderness"
Check out Nat's show Metamashina at https://metamashina.com/
Hear Garrett's band Late Shift at https://lateshiftcountry.bandcamp.com/
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Jacob & I continue the conspiracy theory talk with JG Michael from Parallax Views and Joseph L Flatley, author, filmmaker, and reporter from Pittsburgh PA. Joseph has a new book out called _Satan Goes to the Mind Control Convention_ that we discuss here. We cover the Satanic Panic, recovered memory, Alex Jones trying to break into Bohemian Grove, 80s Time Life book series, et al.
-JG Michael's podcast Parallax Views: https://parallaxviews.podbean.com/
-His other podcast with previous guest C Derick Varn: Alternatives https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/dietsoap/episodes/2019-02-02T13_13_29-08_00
-Check out Joseph's new book, _Satan Goes to the Mind Control Convention_ - https://www.amazon.com/Joseph-L.-Flatley/e/B07B3YY7Y3/
-https://www.lennyflatley.net/
More notes to come.
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Teachers Strikes! Mass Labor Action! We have on three union teacher organizers from Portland-/Vancouver-area public schools to help provide local context for the modern national wave of teacher actions, starting in Wisconsin in 2011 and continuing past when this episode will be posted. Candy, Jody, and Marj join us to talk about their own histories with how they got involved, the differing issues between Oregon and Washington education funding, how to expand union consciousness into political consciousness, and more!
Here's the WEA settlement map showing all the raises teachers won recently in Washington State: https://www.washingtonea.org/ourvoice/pay-benefits/2018-local-settlements/
If you'd like to know more or get involved, contact the Labor Working Group with Portland DSA at portlandDSAlabor@gmail.com
Upcoming Events
-"How to Organize a Union" - February 27th - https://www.facebook.com/events/393831731375140/ -"Socialist Job Fair" - Mar 27th - -"Portland Troublemakers School" by Labor Notes - Apr 4th - https://www.facebook.com/events/388556451694610/ - Recs: - -Labor Notes - https://labornotes.org/ -NW Labor Press - https://nwlaborpress.org/ -Belabored - https://www.dissentmagazine.org/tag/belabored -Street Fight Radio - http://www.streetfightradio.com/ -Working Class History - https://workingclasshistory.com/ -Working History - https://soundcloud.com/southernlaborstudies -Maximilian Alvarez's Working People podcast - http://workingpeople.libsyn.com/ -Reveal, from the Center for Investigative Reporting - https://www.revealnews.org/episodes/ -Hands Off Venezuela PDX - https://www.facebook.com/Hands-Off-Venezuela-PDX-343200689611683/ - End Music: "Power in a Union" - John Darnielle / The Mountain Goats - https://vimeo.com/20862183 -- Contact: - -Candy at cherrera1314@gmail.com -Jody at jody.folkedahl@gmail.com -Marj at marj.hogan@gmail.com -- Follow Jacob on Twitch! http://www.twitch.tv/jacobmercy - Questions/comments/suggestions for great local Korean food: givingthemic@gmail.com - http://facebook.com/givingthemic/ - Help us make the show! http://www.patreon.com/givingthemic
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Part 2 of our talk with Arun Gupta(@arunindy) continues on dissecting "conspiracy" from "conspiracy theory."
We cover: Trump, conspiracy theory as campaign strategy, the Bundys in the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, dealing with Trump supporters, Qanon as a source of power for the disconnected, how to handle high school reunions, explaining is not excusing, 9/11 Truthers and how Truther theories mutate, and what happens when Establishment media is compelled to do Cletus Safaris.
Check out Part 1 here: https://soundcloud.com/givingthemic/ep46-conspiracy-just-like-a-theory-part-1-feat-corey-pein-arun-gupta
Recs:
-Kim Moody's _From Welfare State to Real Estate_ -The Disinformation Guides -Lefttube (e.g. ContraPoints, HBomberguy, Philosophy Tube, Peter Coffin, Lindsay Ellis) -Octave pedals -Giovanni Arrighi & Beverly J Silver's _Chaos and Governance in the Modern World System_ -Giovanni Arrighi's _The Long Twentieth Century: Money, Power and the Origins of Our Times_ -Alex Rosenberg's _How History Gets Things Wrong: The Neuroscience of Our Addiction to Stories_
-Here's Corey's Baffler essay on conspiracy theorists as shitty detectives: https://thebaffler.com/magical-thinking/protocols-moron-pein
-Arun's examination of George HW Bush's role in Iran-Contra: https://theintercept.com/2018/12/07/george-h-w-bush-iran-contra/
-Corey's book: Live Work Work Work Die: A Journey to the Savage Heart of Silicon Valley http://liveworkworkworkdie.com/
-Contribute to Corey Pein's patreon and get his podcast News From Nowhere: https://www.patreon.com/newsfromnowhere
-Support independent journalism and Arun Gupta's patreon: https://www.patreon.com/arunguptareporter
Check out Nat's show Metamashina at https://metamashina.com/
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Corey Pein(@coreypein) and Arun Gupta(@arunindy) return to the show in this first half of a two-part episode to help us suss out the difference between conspiracies and the social phenomenon of conspiracy theories, exactly how conspiracy theories work, and why we create them. What's the difference between investigative journalism and conspiracy theorizing? What happens when the people in power start believing the conspiracy theories? Qanon, the Pisstape, George HW Bush, Iran-Contra. We run the gamut with this one, folks. -- Check out part 2 here: https://soundcloud.com/givingthemic/ep46-part-2-a-conspiracy-does-not-a-theory-make-feat-arun-gupta --
-Here's Corey's Baffler essay on conspiracy theorists as shitty detectives: https://thebaffler.com/magical-thinking/protocols-moron-pein
-Arun's examination of George HW Bush's role in Iran-Contra: https://theintercept.com/2018/12/07/george-h-w-bush-iran-contra/
-Corey's book: Live Work Work Work Die: A Journey to the Savage Heart of Silicon Valley http://liveworkworkworkdie.com/
-Contribute to Corey Pein's patreon and get his podcast News From Nowhere: https://www.patreon.com/newsfromnowhere
-Support independent journalism and Arun Gupta's patreon: https://www.patreon.com/arunguptareporter
Check out Nat's show Metamashina at https://metamashina.com/
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This Saturday, January 19th, there's going to be a #MeToo Speak Out at Terry Schrunk Plaza in Portland, Oregon, starting at 10am.
We're joined by members of the Socialist-Feminist Caucus: Rosemary from Socialist Alternative, Camille from the International Socialist Organization, and Shannon from Democratic Socialists of America to talk about why the Portland chapters of their groups are joining together to host this event.
Also, we get into the original Portland Women's March, the demands and goals of the event, and why socialists need to be part of major national events to help organize them.
FB event link: https://www.facebook.com/events/198858817717576/
From the event description:
Where: Terry Schrunk Plaza When: 10 am, January 19th
The #MeToo Speak Out and Women's March is an opportunity for attendees to take the mic and share their personal experiences with sexual assault, bigotry, and gender-based oppression. This speak out will be an opportunity for collective healing and most importantly a way for us to link our personal traumas to building power to fight back.
This is an event that recognizes that although sexual assault happens to everyone, it disproportionately impacts women and gender minorities, including trans people. ALL survivors are encouraged to share their stories and ideas and we want to make sure this is an event where people from oppressed groups feel welcomed and encouraged to speak about their experiences.
WHAT WE CALL FOR:
-Take #MeToo to the streets and organize in the workplace to build a movement to fight gender oppression and sexual assault! -Black lives matter! End police brutality and mass incarceration -Healthcare is a human right! For trans-inclusive Medicare For All and free abortion on demand -Living wage union jobs, safe working conditions, and equal pay for equal work -Dignified living conditions for people with disabilities -Families belong together and no one is illegal on indigenous stolen land! End deportations, release detainees, and abolish ICE -Rent control, and end to no-cause evictions and sweeps of homeless camps, and publically run affordable housing for all -Build a socialist feminism that is sex worker and trans inclusive
News hits:
"Women Now Run the Military-Industrial Complex. That’s Nothing To Celebrate." - http://inthesetimes.com/article/21682/women-military-industrial-complex-gina-haspel-trump-feminism-lockheed-marti
On the Nasty Gal CEO firing pregnant employees: https://broadly.vice.com/en_us/article/qvdbyb/were-living-in-the-era-of-the-hypocritical-feminist-boss
Also check out the Reclaim MLK Annual Protest for Human Rights and Dignity on Sunday, January 20th, at Peninsula Park, 700 N. Rosa Parks Way, Portland, OR 97201
https://www.facebook.com/events/610926726033142/
Contact info:
Socialist Alternative at https://www.socialistalternative.org/
Portland ISO at http://www.socialistworker.org
Reach Shannon or another DSA mobilizer at mobilizepdx@gmail.com or mobilizepdx@protonmail.com - or Portland DSA at https://portlanddsa.org/
If you liked this and want to know more, check out the earlier talk Nat & I had with three members of DSA Feminist Caucus in our Socialist-Feminism 101 episode: https://soundcloud.com/givingthemic/socialist-feminism-101
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Garrett & I are joined by three heterodox economics professors to give a more Marxist view of economics from the usual neoclassical dross that gets proffered elsewhere.
Youssef Khodaparast, Erik Dean, and Mitch Green are three PhD holders in Econ who help break down why we talk about economics as this mystical thing and hold economists and Alan Greenspan-types up as these High Priests of Modernity who can somehow divine reality for the rest of us.
(The photo is of Marley the Good Dog, who is why Youssef had to leave early.)
Check out Youssef's blog at https://myecopoli.blogspot.com/
Read Erik & Mitch's textbook _Principles of Microeconomics: Scarcity and Social Provisioning_ : http://openoregon.pressbooks.pub/socialprovisioning/
Contact Mitch via twitter: twitter.com/mitchgreennep
Recs:
Paul LeBlanc's _October Song_ Eyes Left Hell of a Way to Die DSA Veteran's Caucus Red Dead Redemption 2 Spielbergs Detroiters Cedric J Robinson's Black Marxism - The show got mentioned in the New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/11/19/how-podcasts-became-a-seductive-and-sometimes-slippery-mode-of-storytelling - Ending tune: "4AM" by Spielbergs - https://bythetimeitgetsdark.bandcamp.com/track/4am
Hear Garrett's band Late Shift at https://lateshiftcountry.bandcamp.com/
@comradegarrett @givingthemic - Questions/comments/suggestions for great local Korean food: givingthemic@gmail.com - http://facebook.com/givingthemic/ - Help us make the show! http://www.patreon.com/givingthemic
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THE RENT IS TOO DAMN HIGH, BUT YOU CAN DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT. LISTEN TO FIND OUT HOW.
Kim & Tabby from the Wimby Tenants Union join Margot from Portland Tenants United to talk Garrett & I about how they started a tenants union at Wimbledon Square Apartments to fight back against the horrible "management" company and what wasn't getting fixed. They started small and expanded into bringing demands directly about the landlords. We also go into how the popular discourse around renting can't really get into how plenty of people actually live and why they rent.
"I'm working on a theory that renters are the new proletariat."
More coverage:
"Tenants Organize Against Poor Living Conditions" - https://reedquest.org/articles/2018/12/7/war-at-the-wimbledons
"Tenants at SE Portland apartment complex call for rent abatement" - https://www.kptv.com/tenants-at-se-portland-apartment-complex-call-for-rent-abatement/video_02327c39-9fc9-5d36-979e-1c5816947e0c.html
Contact:
Portland Tenants United - info@pdxtu.org - https://www.facebook.com/portlandtenantsunited/
Wimby TU - wimbytu@gmail.com - Voicemail: 503-974-4011 - https://www.facebook.com/wimbytenantsunion/
Text "WIMBY" to 444-999 to get on the update list!
- Ending music: a certain Dead Kennedys track - The show got mentioned in the New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/11/19/how-podcasts-became-a-seductive-and-sometimes-slippery-mode-of-storytelling
Hear Garrett's band Late Shift at https://lateshiftcountry.bandcamp.com/
@comradegarrett @givingthemic - Questions/comments/suggestions for great local Korean food: givingthemic@gmail.com - http://facebook.com/givingthemic/ - Help us make the show! http://www.patreon.com/givingthemic
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David Cribb(@colestia3) joins us from far Canberra to talk about making radical leftist video games, the Situationists, EVE Online, unionizing Twitch streamers, and more. Cian, local games artist, joins us too. Jacob keeps asking if Assassin's Creed, Ready Player One, Eve Online, etc is socialist. They are not.
Check out David's work at https://colestia.itch.io/
We recommend Post/Capitalism: https://colestia.itch.io/postcapitalism
Here's a nice documentary on the Situationists from 1989: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncH0-q9OXco
Music segments taken from various Colestia games
RECS:
Paulo Pedercini's games at http://www.molleindustria.org/
Donoteat's series with Cities: Skylines https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lvUByM-fZk&list=PLwkSQD3vqK1S1NiHIxxF2g_Uy-LbbcR84
James Joyce
Tooth & Tail
Tom Sweterlitsch's The Gone World
Yakuza 0
Jody Pederson's Confessions of the Fox
Robert O. Paxton's _The Anatomy of Fascism_
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For a change of pace, we cover one of the greatest worst of the Stephen King film adaptations, _Pet Sematary,_ a movie about how dire warnings from the dead and near-dead becoming the most compelling advice ever. The film is shot better and acted worse than you remember. Also, the main character is a complete jerk to cats for the entire movie and thus deserves what's coming to him.
Watch _Garth Marenghi's Darkplace_ here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8EkN8WtFTpE&list=PLC046BB28463E1459
MTV News coverage of the Ramones filming the vid for "Pet Sematary" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEDYG1tlezk
Recs:
Castle Rock
Horizon: Zero Dawn
Patriot
Sincere Engineer's "Rhombithian" - https://sincereengineer.bandcamp.com/album/rhombithian
- Check out Nat's podcast Metamashina: https://metamashina.com/ - Follow Jacob on Twitch! https://www.twitch.tv/jacobmercy - @ashesforfoxes @givingthemic - Questions/comments/suggestions for great local Korean food: givingthemic@gmail.com - http://facebook.com/givingthemic/ - Help us make the show! http://www.patreon.com/givingthemic
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Socialist Feminism in theory and practice! What makes it different from corporate feminism, or its even worse variant, carceral feminism? Shannon & Becca from the Feminist Caucus of Portland DSA along with Nykki from the Disability Art & Culture Project join Nat & Jeremy to lay out some basic theory, talk about projects that the SocFem Caucus has been working on like the NNAF Bowl-a-Thon to raise abortion access funds or exposing fake pregnancy resource centers, and we get into personal radicalization stories. What brings you to realize that there's more to do beyond just helping a few people break the glass ceiling?
Support the Holgate Manor Rent Strike! https://www.gofundme.com/holgate-manor-strike-fund - Next mtg of the Portland DSA Feminist Caucus: Sept 15 https://www.facebook.com/events/218964298975418/ - Upcoming panel event: Reproduction Health Justice for All Sept 19th - 6:30 pm - Multnomah Friends Meeting House 4312 SE Stark St. http://goo.gl/UatX2f - Opening talk: Angela Davis from Oct 2017 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzQkVfO9ToQ - The National Network of Abortion Funds: https://abortionfunds.org/ - Pittsburgh DSA's project on exposing fake clinics: https://www.exposefakeclinicspgh.com/ - The Disability Art & Culture Project - https://dacphome.org/ - Don't Shoot Portland - https://www.dontshootpdx.org/ - Portland Democratic Socialists of America: https://portlanddsa.org/ - Check out our first episode with members of Portland DSA from last fall: https://soundcloud.com/givingthemic/ep27-portland-dsa - Recs: - Zach Morris is Trash - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GtT3zbHGjFc - Go Bayside! - http://gobayside.tumblr.com/ - Jordy Rosenberg's _Confessions of the Fox - A Novel_ - http://www.powells.com/book/-9780399592270 - Frontline - Documenting Hate: Charlottesville - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ATHN9sAu28 - Won't You Be My Neighbor? - Blackkklansman - Melissa Gira Grant's _Playing the Whore: The Work of Sex Work_ - Ending music: Downtown Boys - "Monstro" - Check out Nat's podcast Metamashina: https://metamashina.com/ - Contact us: schrecsn@gmail.com @beckerachi @ashesforfoxes @givingthemic - Questions/comments/suggestions for great local Korean food: givingthemic@gmail.com - http://facebook.com/givingthemic/ - Help us make the show! http://www.patreon.com/givingthemic
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Socialism! We deep-dive into it in this one, having done a pretty thorough examination of liberalism in the last part. Topics covered: Karl Marx, John Rawls, Bill Burr, Heterodoxy, Iceland, Boots Riley, Ash Sarkar, Michael Hardt, Astra Taylor's _Examined Life_. If you missed Part 1, try here: https://soundcloud.com/givingthemic/ideology-101-liberalism-vs-socialism-with-jason-lawrencepart-1
Support the Holgate Manor Rent Strike! https://www.gofundme.com/holgate-manor-strike-fund - Recs: - Wolfgang Streeck's _How Will Capitalism End?_ - Asad Haider's _Mistaken Identity: Race & Class in the Trump Era_ - Night of the Hunter - David McLellan's _Karl Marx: A Biography_ - Radical America: https://library.brown.edu/cds/radicalamerica/ - Westworld - The Beths - _Future Me Hates Me_ - https://thebethsnz.bandcamp.com/album/future-me-hates-me - Sorry to Bother You - See Garrett's band at https://lateshiftcountry.bandcamp.com/ - Contact us: @givingthemic @comradegarrett @whichwayisleft - http://facebook.com/givingthemic/ - Help us make the show! http://www.patreon.com/givingthemic
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What, you mean that "liberal" doesn't actually mean "socialist?!" Jason Lawrence from Portland DSA joins Garrett & I to detail what the actual differences between "liberalism" and "socialism" are, breaks down some basic Marxist principles like the labor theory of value, we mention John Rawls yet again, and even talk about Prof Richard Wolff's work. And Dave Chappelle. And the Jerky Boys. And John Dewey. And Boots Riley's _Sorry to Bother You_. Check out Part 2 here: https://soundcloud.com/givingthemic/ideology-101-liberalism-vs-socialism-with-jason-lawrencepart-2
The text we refer to is Ball & Dagger's _Political Ideologies and the Democratic Ideal_
Dave Chappell on Crank Yankers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sgE4yuPGmJU
Prof Richard Woff's lecture on Worker Co-ops: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1WUKahMm1s
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Audio from Tim Faust's talk in Portland on Friday, July 20, 2018. You also hear Riley from our Medicare-for-All episode, too.
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We talk to Riley Brann from the Portland DSA about Medicare4All, how to campaign for it, and why. Natasha & Garrett join in to bring their healthcare industry knowledge. We also get into the moral theory _why_ healthcare should not be a profit center at all, and John Rawls' Veil of Ignorance.
Later, Tim Faust calls in from his West Coast campaign speaking to crowds about Health Justice and how single-payer is just one way to get there. He updates from the road from the folks he's talked to, all about the backyard wrestling federation he helped start in Austin, and even gives a metal band you should check out.
See Tim's speaking tour!
7/19 - Eugene- Straub Rm 145, U of O - 7:00 PM
7/20 - Portland - Sunnyside Community House - 3520 SE Yamhill St, 6:30 PM
7/21 Olympia - 222 Columbia St NW - 12:00:00 PM
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Part 2 of our Organizing 101 episode! Shamus Cooke is back with Garrett & I. We talk about the #OccupyICEPDX camp, how to focus demands from an Occupy camp, when the Direct Action Alliance went to City Council, unions, DRUM & the League of Revolutionary Black Workers, and ol' George Meany. This one has me do a _lot_ of self-owns on mic and you all should enjoy that.
Listen to Part 1 here: https://soundcloud.com/givingthemic/organizing-101-part-1
Go here to find out more info about the Portland OccupyICE camp: https://www.facebook.com/groups/occupyicepdx/
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Organizing! It's the thing all those online leftists are talking about! Shamus Cooke from SEIU, Portland Tenants United, and the Portland DSA joins Garrett & I to give us an overview of organizing, mobilizing, strategy, agitation, and more. What's it like to canvass for tenants' rights? Part 2 coming soon!
Check out Part 2 here: https://soundcloud.com/givingthemic/organizing-101-part-2
Opening segment: Jane McAlevey at Harvard Law Forum, March 2018. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UoOZFEyxBBU
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Corey Pein returns home to Portland to talk about his new book, _Live Work Work Work Die: A Journey Into the Savage Heart of Silicon Valley_, and also regales us with tales about that podcast booktour life, shitty tech ideology, Alex Jones, Elon Musk, FitBits, and the value of podcasts.
Corey will be doing a reading at Powell's in Portland on Friday, June 8th, at 7:30pm.
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Ian Williams(@Brock_toon)from Jacobin/Vice joins us to talk how geek culture has degenerated into just nostalgia for '80s nostalgia, Witcher III as the superior Dad Game, Dusty Rhodes as working-class icon, the joys of miniatures war-gaming and Warhammer, Jesse Ventura, how you can learn about Trump from Vince McMahon(and vice versa), and Garfield.
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Arun Gupta joins us to regale everyone with tales of visiting factory farms, what New York City used to be like, and what happened when he went to cover the Bundy occupation at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge.
Arun will be presenting at the Opening Space for the Radical Imagination event with a talk entitled "Policing, Property, and Protestantism" on Saturday, April 7th. More details here: https://www.oregonimagines.com/
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Derick Varn(@skepoet) from our Baby Leftist Primer episode returns to talk to Jacob and I about teachers' union, workerism, DSA, Chapo Trap House, gun violence, what leftists keep getting wrong, and how to separate your personal moral purity from your political organizing. We cover a lot.
Derick Varn's previous appearance: http://goo.gl/RHtnGy
Varn's first collection of poetry _Apocalyptics_ will be out this summer from Unlikely Press.
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Douglas Lain from Zero Books returns! Comrade Communicator from the Intergalactic Workers League contacts us remotely about 1:14:00 in.
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[RE-UPLOAD] Jacob & I welcome Douglas Lain from Zero Books to talk about everything from the difference between Anarchism and Marxism, how copy-editing at Zero Books works, the reaction to Angela Nagle's Kill All Normies, interviewing both Posadists and Slavoj Zizek, Leftist YouTube, Chapo Trap House, and much, much more.
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Jemiah, Natasha, & new guest Ami school me on the history of fan fiction, and we get into lots of "Hannibal." First episode we've ever recorded where multiple co-hosts declare "FUCK YOU, ANNE RICE" on mic.
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Jemiah, Natasha, & new guest Ami school me on the history of fan fiction, and we get into lots of "Hannibal." First episode we've ever recorded where multiple co-hosts declare "FUCK YOU, ANNE RICE" on mic.
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Part 2 of our episode with Portland comics veteran Paul Guinan. Much more comic-making talk on this one! Check out Aztec Empire at https://www.patreon.com/guinan -- http://www.bigredhair.com/
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(Part 1) Portland comics veteran Paul Guinan(_Boilerplate_, _Frank Reade: Adventures in the Age of Invention_) joins us to talk about the meaning of life, as well as his career, his Patreon comic _Aztec Empire,_ the _24-Hour Comic_ documentary, the considerations of making education comics about dark historical events, gentrification in Portland and Chicago, and much more. Check out Aztec Empire at https://www.patreon.com/guinan or the site he & his wife Anina Bennett run at http://www.bigredhair.com/
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The Democratic Socialists of America exploded over the last year, going from about 6,700 members in 2016 to surpassing 30,000 in October 2017. We have on Olivia and Jody from the Portland chapter(https://portlanddsa.org) to talk about why they joined with the organization and why you should, too. http://www.dsausa.org/join
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A LOT of people got radicalized and activated by political events of the last year. Derick Varn(@skepoet) is a lecturer, poet, and reader for Zero Books who joins us to give advice and warnings to folks on the Left who are new to this sort of thing. All of this has happened before and will happen again. There's a great reading list here of stuff y'all need to check out. Jacob (@jacobmercy) is here to help.
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Natasha(@ashesforfoxes), Garrett(@comradegarrett), and I recorded a snap reaction cast to the two-part pilot/prologue of Star Trek: Discovery. Entire episode is a spoilercast, but anybody listening to this has already seen it or doesn't care. We get into our respective Trek fandoms(or lack thereofs), Natasha is way too into the godawful "Enterprise" theme, and Garrett plays the role of the innocent but curious observer in this trek world.
Ep was recorded in late September. It was going to be out far sooner but life intrudes and turning around a hobby podcast ain't as easy as one would think.
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On this episode, Jacob(@jacobmercy) joins Natasha(@ashesforfoxes), Garrett(@comradegarrett), and I talk about information overload which merges into Watchmen, Overwatch, a mention of Comet the Superhorse & Walter Benjamin, and a buncha more dumb jokes.
The name we’re trying to pronounce is “ Bill Sienkiewicz,” whom you can find at http://www.billsienkiewiczart.com/
Ep was recorded in mid-September.
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Lillian(@anomalily) from the podcast/website OhMyDollar joins us to talk about basic budgeting, handling financial anxiety, and using Harry Potter to teach social acceptance and basic empathy.
We also have an extended bit on "Smalt," the dumbest crowdfunded thing ever(which is saying something). Ep was recorded in mid-August.
Check out her website here: https://www.ohmydollar.com/
Her book will be on Kickstarter in Oct 2017.
Lillian is currently traveling the globe! Follow her progress at http://anomalily.world/
Recs:
Detroit · Dr Tommy J. Curry - _The Man-Not: Race, Class, Genre, and the Dilemmas of Black Manhood_ · Champagne Sharks - https://www.patreon.com/champagnesharks · Downtown Boys - _Cost of Living_ · Mikhail Bulgokov - _Master & Margherita_ · Pathfinder - "Way of the Wicked" - http://paizo.com/products/btpy8tmr?Way-of-the-Wicked-Book-2-Call-Forth-Darkness · Sex & the City ·
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Jacob Mercy(@jacobmercy) joins us in a group discussion of talking about how we each have grown increasing political as it were over the past few years. This ep has far more politics and far more jokes than usual. We also discuss Joss Whedon in a slightly prescient takedown. Ep recorded in mid-July.
Recs:
Age of Anger: A History of the Present · Racecraft: The Soul of Inequality in American Life · Badlands · GLOW · LetterKenny · 24 Hour Comic Movie - http://www.24hourcomicmovie.com/ · The Black Monday Murders · Algiers - _Underside of Power_ · Also Jacob wants you know he's been watching a LOT of Game Grumps.
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AND NOW THE EXCITING CONCLUSION of our two-parter on TEEN DRAMA! TeamMom Tara(@tcbbiggs), Natasha(@ashesforfoxes), and I go over Buffy & Riverdale. This is the talk you've been waiting for. Ep recorded in late June. "Treacherous White People Shit" trademarked by Elon James White of the WeNerdHard podcast. · · · Tara can be heard on Blazer's Edge: www.blazersedge.com/podcasts · · · RECS: · · · I Was There Too · What Trump Can Teach Us about Const. Law · Chastity Belt - https://chastity-belt.bandcamp.com/ · MST3K the Reboot · Jughead, Vol 1. · Angela Nagle - _Kill All Normies: Online Culture Wars From 4Chan And Tumblr To Trump And The Alt-Right_ · Phoebe Maltz Bovy - _The Perils of "Privilege": Why Injustice Can't Be Solved by Accusing Others of Advantage_ ·
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Part 1 of an episode about TEEN DRAMA! From Degrassi Jr High to 90210 and Buffy and Twin Peaks and My So-Called Life and Vampire Diaries and MORE! TeamMom Tara(@tcbbiggs) from the Blazer's Edge podcast returns to talk with Natasha(@ashesforfoxes) and I about TEEN DRAMAS we have known and loved, or at least their weird tropes. Also, for expected reasons, we get into what slashfic is. Ep recorded in late June. "Treacherous White People Shit" trademarked by Elon James White of the WeNerdHard podcast. Part 2 should be up soon! · · · Tara can be heard on Blazer's Edge: www.blazersedge.com/podcasts
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TeamMom Tara(@tcbbiggs) from the Blazer's Edge podcast joins Natasha(@ashesforfoxes), Garrett(@comradegarrett), and myself to discuss: online fandom, getting into spots as a data-intensive obsession, being a woman in a male-dominated fan space, and Phil Hartman. Ep recorded in mid May. · · · Tara can be heard on Blazer's Edge: http://www.blazersedge.com/podcasts · · · Auralnauts' channel on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/Auralnauts · · · Recs: · · · _Unguarded : My Forty Years Surviving in the NBA_ by Lenny Wilkens and Terry Pluto · · · _Loose Balls : The Short, Wild Life of the American Basketball Association_ by Terry Pluto · · ·
Teen Wolf (the MTV show) · · · Casablanca // An American in Paris // Logan · · · The Wild Reeds - http://thewildreeds.bandcamp.com/ Muncie Girls - http://munciegirls.bandcamp.com/ · · · Podcasts to know and share: District Sentinel Radio · · · Street Fight Radio · · · Gilmore Guys · · · You Must Remember This · · · Homo Vulgaris · · · Age of Napoleon · · · Humorless Queers · · · Stockton to Malone · · ·
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Natasha(@ashesforfoxes), Garrett(@comradegarrett), & I go over our histories in College Radio, Rogue One, Prog Metal bands we liked in high school, and a thousand other related subjects as usual. And political stuff.
Ep was recorded in late April.
/ / / / / Show notes: · · Current Affairs: "The Racism v. Economics Debate Again" - https://www.currentaffairs.org/2017/04/the-racism-v-economics-debate-again · · ·
· · · Recs: S-town -- Chris Ware's Jimmy Corrigan -- Cherry Glazerr -- https://cherryglazerr.bandcamp.com/ -- · · · ‘Thought Leader’ gives talk that will inspire your thoughts | This is That | CBC -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ZBKX-6Gz6A · · · With Friends Like These with Thomas Frank -- “Contentment is a professional risk” https://art19.com/shows/with-friends-like-these/episodes/aa188d3d-620d-4e6f-a8a8-a0049d15794b --
· · · Dan Olson's Folding Ideas ep on #Gamergate - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5VtjZHC5Qyk --
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Natasha(@ashesforfoxes), Garrett(@comradegarrett), & I started by talking about Gamergate/RedPill/MRA bollocks, and naturally wander off into creators who can't be edited, Zizek, why we can't envision a future that isn't post-apoc or SkyNet-controlled, and wind up mentioning fake drugs, from "Nuke" to one the media actually think are real, like Jenkem. Ep was recorded in early April.
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Notes:
The quote I'm mangling is from Fredric Jameson(I think), and Zizek says it a lot: "It is easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism" - Confused Cats Against Feminism - http://confusedcatsagainstfeminism.tumblr.com/ -
Rick Perlstein's "Outsmarted" - https://thebaffler.com/salvos/outsmarted-perlstein - Talking about it on the Experts Baffled: http://thebaffler.com/latest/experts-baffled-1-smart - Dave Weigel on the Jacobin's The Dig podcast: https://www.blubrry.com/thedig/21836566/dave-weigel-what-the-media-doesnt-get-about-the-left/ - James Adomian doing Slavoj Zizek on Chapo Trap House #46: https://soundcloud.com/chapo-trap-house/episode-46-no-cucks-in-a-foxhole-feat-jadomian-10416 - -
That news report about Jenkem: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2UsNbsjpuLc -
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The Expanse - Legion -
Alice Clark - "Never Did I Stop Loving You" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPOO7iwufCQ - Eric Carlson doing Bird Photography: https://www.patreon.com/portlandbirder - Jonathan Matthew Smucker's _Hegemony How-To: a Roadmap for Radicals_ - Jacobin/Verso Book's _The ABCs of Socialism_ - / / / / / · · ·
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Natasha(@ashesforfoxes) & Garrett(@comradegarrett) join me once again to cover why pro-wrestling is critical to an understanding of how American politics currently works, along with Linda McMahon's Senate campaigns, the feud between Andy Kaufman & Jerry 'the King' Lawler, and when Quentin Tarantino played Margaret Cho's boyfriend on her mid-90s sitcom.
The middle section has a few minutes of Marc Maron discussing how Roland Barthes made him understand wrestling, from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4IGR1VRq0y8 ·
Andy Kaufman challenges Jerry 'The King' Lawler: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGij4RgqLY8 and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o37-8TdqKW8&t · Vince McMahon introduces the Attitude Era in WWF: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PjBeCwz2fXg ·
The ending to Jodorowsky's _Holy Mountain_: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agw27HhB4H4 ·
Macho Man Randy Savage's epic "Cream of the Crop" promo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8C4lK41SX-Q ·
Quentin Taratino on Margaret Cho's sitcom from 1995: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQIXP0oRNwY ·
Seth MacFarlane on ST:Enterprise: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IgKxeX0_oL4 · · · · Show Recs: · Thomas Frank - _Listen, Liberal_ · Ursela K Lequin - _The Dispossed_ · Robert Paul Wolff - "Ideology Critique" Lecture Series - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbU3yW2xIGE · the Crimetown Podcast - · Kalatazov's _Letter Never Sent_ · _Viy_ · _I Am Not Your Negro_ · Becky Bond & Zack Exley's _Rules for Revolutionaries: How Big Organizing Can Change Everything_ · Michael E Goodwin & Dan E. Burr's _Economix: How Our Economy Works (and Doesn't Work), in Words and Pictures_ · Zeal & Ardor - "Devil is Fine" - https://zealandardor.bandcamp.com/
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Talking weird online fan conspiracies along with the downside of 21st-C entitled nerd/geek fandom with new guest Natasha and returning guest Garrett. Recorded in mid-Jan 2017, right after the "Sherlock" series 4 finale. Other topics: Captain America as Hydra agent was some dumb shit, huh? Online supporters only getting really engaged when they can vent outrage. Other dumb jokes. ··
Show recs ··
Imaginary Worlds - http://www.imaginaryworldspodcast.org/ ··
Chapo Trap House - https://www.patreon.com/chapotraphouse ··
Hush - https://www.netflix.com/title/80091879 ··
Adam Curtis' Century of the Self - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJ3RzGoQC4s ··
The Seratones - "Choking on Your Spit" - https://seratones.bandcamp.com/ ··
Shit Present - "Evil Way" - https://specialistsubject.bandcamp.com/ ··
ORBS - "Death is Imminent (However Relevant)" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67COZRhBHqU ··
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A rough b-side accompaniment to our last episode on the Crow, this was our _first_ attempt at recording a Crow ep, but it went quickly off the rails in amusing ways. Jemiah Jefferson(jemiah.com) and Jon Ascher(jonascher.com) joins to talk about our stories of how we moved to Portland, life at Kinkos, dealing with M-S, and how we each found out about James O'Barr's "the Crow." · · -- Show Notes -- · Rick Moranis on the Nerdist Podcast: http://nerdist.com/nerdist-podcast-rick-moranis/ · Check out Jemiah's work: www.amazon.com/Jemiah-Jefferson/e/B001KIG19U ·
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At long last, our Crow episode is out! Jemiah Jefferson(http://jemiah.com) returns along with Portland artist Jon Ascher(http://jonascher.com) to discuss the phenomenon that was James O'Barr's "the Crow:" the comic, the film, the soundtrack. We also talk about Frank Miller, Watchmen, and that time in everybody's lives where the only thing to do is to drink Thunderbird and binge on Bruce Lee films. This was actually the 2nd attempt at our discussion, recorded back in Early November 2016, as our original recording happened in September and kinda got sidetracked a LOT before we ran out of time. · Listen to Part 2: http://soundcloud.com/givingthemic/ep14-b-side-to-our-crow-episode-with-jemiah-jon · -- Show Notes -- · Jiz & the Mammograms https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLBYc-Zixeapn1LnjjoRuWd7B1wy8PCId4 ·
The story behind the Skull Cowboy, cut from the film: http://io9.gizmodo.com/who-was-the-skull-cowboy-the-mysterious-character-cut-1356239694 ·
The timecode to see James O'Barr's cameo is about 33:00 in ·
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Dumb work travel stories! My brother Jon calls in from the Detroit suburbs and we reminisce over too many years spend on the road, taking the usual tangents into the Magnificent 7 remake, Hunt for the Wilderpeople & why everyone needs to see it, how I got my photo taken atop the World's Largest Jackalope, etc. This was an experimental ep in that I had no idea if the tech would work, but it did and so we got an episode out of it. When visiting Jackson Hole, WY, motor over to Dubois and see the World's Largest Jackalope Museum. http://www.roadsideamerica.com/story/13257
Notes & Recs:
Taika Wakiki's _Hunt for the Wilderpeople_ ·
RVIVR - "Scrooged" - https://rvivr.bandcamp.com/album/the-joester-sessions-collection-2008-2011 ·
White Lung on KEXP - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5ab1PmwmkE ·
Bon Iver - https://boniver.bandcamp.com ·
Mark Cromer's SimGolf theme: http://www.markcromer.name/sim-golf-music ·
Ending Music: Hüsker Dü's "Private Plane" ·
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Join us as we make an attempt to investigate the cinematic oddity that is Neil Breen's _Fateful Findings_, a 2013 thriller? melodrama? supernatural romance? All of them? Garrett Burt from Ep 7: The Stallone Show is back along with his lady Mackendree Thompson to join me in a wide-ranging, occasionally on-topic conversation that involves Tommy Wiseau's The Room, whether the New York Times is middlebrow or not(it is), The Crow, Suicide Squad, the enjoyment one gets from outsider art, and the technical proficiency not being an indicator of entertainment level.
Oh and the movie poster we're referring to halfway thru is for Sam Raimi's _Army of Darkness_, starring Bruce Campbell.
Notes & Recs:
Purchase a DVD of Fateful Findings from Neil himself here: http://fatefulfindings.biz/
New York Cine Radio interviewed Neil for their show: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6RXDAT9xJM
Happy Driving - _Electric Soul Utility_ - https://happydiving.bandcamp.com/
Don't Hug Me I'm Scared - https://www.youtube.com/user/thisisitcollective
The Chapo Trap House Podcast - http://splitsider.com/2016/09/explaining-the-chapo-trap-house-podcast-to-the-uninitiated/
Laird Barron's _The Beautiful Thing that Awaits Us All_ - http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/books/2013/09/laird_barron_s_cosmic_horror_collection_the_beautiful_thing_that_awaits.html
The Great British Bake-Off - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6CcSpAHYsw&list=PL4fwwa5rGxNyAJXFO8zeZq6J0w1DiUCgp
Used Mark Cromer's SimGolf music at some point: http://www.markcromer.name/sim-golf-music
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Part 2 of our talk with Adam & Andy from Cosmic Monkey Comics. My mic is still a bit buzzy since I'm such an awesome audio engineer. Subjects this time involve running a comic shop aimed at family readers rather than collectors, Marvel's bankruptcy, the shitshow that was the Dunes bar, Roddy Piper's standup career, Steve Miller's SNL bit, and more. ---
---- Notes: --- www.cosmicmonkeycomics.com --- 5335 NE Sandy Blvd, Portland, OR 97213 ---
Recs: --
Blacksad: https://www.darkhorse.com/Books/16-361/Blacksad-HC ---
Amulet: http://www.scholastic.com/amulet/ ---
Longest Day of the Future: https://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2016/10/luca-varelas-the-longest-day-of-the-future-is-dark.html ---
The Eternaut: http://www.fantagraphics.com/eternaut/ ---
Luke Pearson's Hilda books: http://lukepearson.com/Hilda ---
Ghosts: http://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/ghosts-raina-telgemeier-returns ---//////-----
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Following up on our previous convo with Bridge City Comics, this here's a talk with Adam & Andy from Cosmic Monkey Comics, split into two parts for easier consumption and because I can't edit audio as fast as I'd like. Warning that the recording quality in this one is a bit twitchy since I'm such an awesome audio engineer. We talk about everything from starting your own shop to Todd McFarlane stories to when Bob Mould wrote pro-wrestling for WCW. ---
Also, I completely blow my references early in the ep by confusing Ilan Mitchell-Smith(from Weird Science) with Robert Carradine (from Revenge of the Nerds). We profoundly regret the error.
Part 2 coming next week! ---- Notes: --- http://www.cosmicmonkeycomics.com --- 5335 NE Sandy Blvd, Portland, OR 97213 ---
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ndK2ej-qbws -- An awkward interview with Bob Mould by the Prima-Donns on Minneapolis Cable Access in 1999 --
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We welcome Portland authors Jemiah Jefferson(http://jemiah.com) and Rachel Levy (http://twitter.com/rachell19883490) to talk about self-publishing a book on Amazon/Barnes & Noble/Etc. Tales of fighting with various e-formats, learning publishing software, finding artists! We also talk about college radio and Luke Cage, of course. ----- _Mixtape for the Apocalypse_ -- https://www.amazon.com/Mixtape-Apocalypse-Jemiah-Jefferson/dp/1466310359 ----
_The Take of Martina McTripaw_ -- https://www.amazon.com/Tale-Martina-McTripaw-Rachel-Julia/dp/0974362646/ ----
S H O W R E C S ----
An Intro to the Works of Chuck Tingle - http://lithub.com/how-a-self-published-writer-of-gay-erotica-beat-sci-fis-sad-puppiesat-their-own-game/ ----
Harvey Pekar's Our Cancer Year - http://www.powells.com/book/our-cancer-year-9781568580111/65-2 ----
Laser Time - http://www.lasertimepodcast.com/ ----
Thirty Twenty Ten - http://www.lasertimepodcast.com/category/thirty-twenty-ten/ ----
the new Flintstones comic #4 - http://www.dccomics.com/blog/2016/10/03/preview-monday-the-flintstones-4 ----
Luke Cage - https://www.netflix.com/title/80002537 ----
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This episode features a talk with Garrett from Honky Tonk Union & Eran from In the Cut Podcast about Stallone films, or at least what we can shakily remember about them. We wind up talking a lot about Rocky IV, Demolition Man, and bits of Rambo. And more than a few tangents about Channel One, Silk Stalkings, and Wesley Snipes. We get SOOOO many things wrong in this episode. Email all your corrections to Eran.
-- -- -- Recommendations -- -- --
Faculty of Horror - http://www.facultyofhorror.com/ --
Chapo Trap House - http://splitsider.com/2016/09/explaining-the-chapo-trap-house-podcast-to-the-uninitiated/ --
Our Last Week - http://www.audiomatic.in/category/our-last-week/ --
Walden Pink - David Yow - https://www.facebook.com/waldenpink/ --
Great British Bake Off - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6CcSpAHYsw&list=PL4fwwa5rGxNyAJXFO8zeZq6J0w1DiUCgp --
Supersizers - https://www.youtube.com/user/Supersizers --
Zeal & Ardor - https://zealandardor.bandcamp.com/ --
The Crapshoot - http://thecrapshoot.net/ --
Honky Tonk Union - http://www.honkytonkunion.com/ --
Davenport Brothers - https://www.facebook.com/davbros/ --
In the Cut - A Podcast about Overthinking Movies - http://www.inthecut.org/ ---
"The second amendment book" - Guns Save Lives: True Stories of American Defending Their Lives With Firearms, Robert A Waters, 2002. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B008BH6RFG Check out the cover!
FYI: Demolition Man used "Pizza Hut" in Non-US territories! Horrifying! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpRzusd9Yi8 ------------------
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Our first ep discussing that Portland comic book life! Michael Ring and Merrick Monroe from Bridge City Comics join us to discuss Michael's daughter inexplicably wanting to see the Suicide Squad movie, gentrification & its related arson threats, horror films we saw at too young an age, Larry Drake, what will happen when Image Comics moves its HQ to Portland, harassment of women working the counter at a comic shop, nerd culture & its monetization, & oh so much more! WARNING This ep contains _lotsa_ "WKRP in Cincinnati" joeks, moreso than one would otherwise expect, or could be planned. //
http://www.bridgecitycomics.com/
// Recs:
Copra - http://michelfiffe.com/comics/copra/ // Blade of the Immortal - https://www.darkhorse.com/Search/blade+of+the+immortal // Akira - https://www.darkhorse.com/Books/40-180/Akira-Vol-1-TPB // F.E.A.R. Agent - https://www.darkhorse.com/Search/fear+agent // Invisibles - http://www.theverge.com/2012/12/22/3793690/the-classics-grant-morrison-the-invisibles // Madame Xanadu - http://www.vertigocomics.com/graphic-novels/madame-xanadu-vol-1-disenchanted // Wayward - https://imagecomics.com/comics/series/wayward // Nextwave - Agents of H.A.T.E. - http://io9.gizmodo.com/why-nextwave-agents-of-h-a-t-e-is-one-of-marvels-grea-1727023298 //
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Episode 5: A mix of new music you should hear and my conversation with Jesse and Brock from StreamPDX at the XOXO Fest in Portland in early Sept 2016. Conversation starts at 5:45 in.
Tracks:
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White Lung - "Narcoleptic" - Vancouver, BC - http://whitelung.bandcamp.com/ --
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S U R V I V E - "Wardenclyffe" - Austin, TX - http://survive.bandcamp.com/ --
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Slow Down Molasses - "New Release" - Saskatoon, SK - http://slowdownmolasses.bandcamp.com/ --
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Jeff Rosenstock - "Festival Song" - Brooklyn, NY - http://jeffrosenstock.bandcamp.com/ --
StreamPDX: https://streampdx.com/ - "a community podcast and storytelling studio." --
Jesse's podcast - In the Cut - "A show about overthinking movies" - http://www.inthecut.org/ --
Brock's podcast - The Sprocket Podcast - "Simplifying the good life" - http://www.thepodcasthost.com/thesprocketpodcast/ --
The XOXO Fest(Rest in Peace) - http://xoxofest.com/ --
Remember that ep of ST: Voyager were the Rock showed up, because both Voyager and WWE Smackdown were on UPN? That was weird, right? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYUyTcoe0qw --
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We talk with Glenn Peters about the game Go a.k.a. Weiqi a.k.a. Baduk, its history, its appearances in American pop culture, significant games, etc.
Stuff mentioned:
_Heaven Knows, Mr Allison_, 1957, dir by John Huston
"Hikaru no Go", 1998-on, originally created by Yumi Hotta and Takeshi Obata.
_Criminal Minds,_ S1E1, "Extreme Aggressor"
_A Beautiful Mind,_ 2001. Dir by Ron Howard
_Pi_, 1998, dir by Darren Aranofsky
Glenn Peters Twitter: @greyaenigma
Oregon Go http://oregongo.org/
American Go Association http://www.usgo.org/
Internet Go School http://internetgoschool.com/index.vhtml
KGS http://www.gokgs.com/
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1st mini ep of music recs! Bands you need to hear:
RVIVR - Olympia, WA - http://rvivr.bandcamp.com/
Pinkshinyultrablast - St. Petersburg, Russia - http://pinkshinyultrablast.bandcamp.com/
Black Mountain - Vancouver, BC - http://blackmountain.bandcamp.com/
Møtrik - Portland, OR - http://motrik.bandcamp.com/
Puppy Breath - Portland, OR - http://puppybreath.bandcamp.com/
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Talking with @chavtasticjinx about our respective obsessive love of British TV comedy(and film and books and and and). Send all corrections to /dev/null
Recs: Fresh Meat Bad Education Brass Eye Nathan Barley Touch of Cloth Seeso Harmonquest The Favour, the Watch, and the Very Big Fish - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTAZf2s4pSE The Now Show The Beef & Dairy Network Wooden Overcoats The Infinite Monkey Cage
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The first episode! Listen along as I learn how to do this thing. I talk with Dawn Hewitt (@dorkvania) about Paranormal Investigations and fictional depections thereof.
Recs:
Lore - http://www.lorepodcast.com/ The Black Tapes - http://theblacktapespodcast.com/ Tanis - http://www.tanispodcast.com/ Hello From the Magic Tavern - https://hellofromthemagictavern.com/
Netflix: Stranger Things
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