Giving the Mic to the Wrong Person
Socialism and Simpsons soundclips. Posadism and p…
Giving the Mic to the Wrong Person · Giving the Mic to the Wrong Person Podcast
Show overview
Giving the Mic to the Wrong Person has been publishing since 2016, and across the 5 years since has built a catalogue of 110 episodes. That works out to roughly 150 hours of audio in total. Releases follow a monthly cadence.
Episodes typically run an hour to ninety minutes — most land between 1h 7m and 1h 39m — though episode length varies meaningfully from one episode to the next. None of the episodes are flagged explicit by the publisher. It is catalogued as a EN-language Society & Culture show.
The catalogue appears to be on hiatus or wound down — the most recent episode landed 4.5 years ago, with no new episodes in over a year. Published by Giving the Mic to the Wrong Person Podcast.
From the publisher
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 // [email protected] // www.facebook.com/givingthemic/
Latest Episodes
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89. Lain Change feat. Doug Lain
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: [email protected] - 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.
88. Part 2 of Teaching Covid-Year 2 (ft. C Derick Varn, Melisa Crosby, and Beth Salmon)
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: [email protected] - 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.
88. Teaching Covid, Year 2 (part 1) - feat. C. Derick Varn, Melisa Crosby, and Beth Salmon
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: [email protected] - 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.
87. Mark Levin's American Marxism - Part 2
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: [email protected] - 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.
87. Mark Levin's American Marxism: The Book - Part 1
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: [email protected] - 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.
86. [RE-UPLOAD] Leftist Veteran Chat on the Afghanistan Withdrawal and Hero Worship Culture
[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: [email protected] - 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.
86. Leftist Veteran Chat on the Afghanistan Withdrawal and Hero Worship Culture
[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: [email protected] - 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.
85. Cancelling, with Ben Burgis
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: [email protected] - 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.
84. March for Medicare for All
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/
*BONUS EP* - Stopping by the Varn Vlog (ft. C. Derick Varn) -July 2021
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/
83. Getting Relief to the People (ft. the 1040Bloc)
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: [email protected] - 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.
82. Cooking in Nomadland, ft. Arun Gupta & Jason Myles
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: [email protected] - 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.
81. Only the Dead Have Seen the End of Culture War (ft. Andrew Hartman)
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: [email protected] - 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.
80. Weed Workers of the World, Unite! (ft. the Cannabis Workers Coalition)
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: [email protected] - 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.
79. Books About UFOs (and Communists) w/ A.M. Gittlitz
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: [email protected] - 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.
78. Market Worship: Texas, Gamestonks, and Libertarians (ft. Rob Larson, Erik Dean, and Mitch Green)
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: [email protected] - 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.
77. All Power to the Meeple! Leftist Boardgames with Brian from the TESA Collective
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: [email protected] - 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.
76. The Foul Cyber Year of Our Lord 2020
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. - 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: [email protected] - 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.
75. Organize the Unemployed !
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: [email protected] - 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.
74. Tenant Organizing & Its History
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: [email protected] - 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.