Giving the Mic to the Wrong Person

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: [email protected] - http://facebook.com/givingthemic/ - http://Twitter.com/givingthemic/ - Help us make the show! http://www.patreon.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.

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 - Questions/comments/suggestions for great local Korean food: [email protected] - http://facebook.com/givingthemic/ - http://Twitter.com/givingthemic/ - Help us make the show! http://www.patreon.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 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/ - Follow Jacob on Twitch! http://www.twitch.tv/jacobmercy - @jacobmercy @givingthemic - Questions/comments/suggestions for great local Korean food: [email protected] - http://facebook.com/givingthemic/ - Help us make the show! http://www.patreon.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 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/ - Follow Jacob on Twitch! http://www.twitch.tv/jacobmercy - @jacobmercy @givingthemic - Questions/comments/suggestions for great local Korean food: [email protected] - http://facebook.com/givingthemic/ - Help us make the show! http://www.patreon.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 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/ - Follow Jacob on Twitch! http://www.twitch.tv/jacobmercy - @jacobmercy @givingthemic - Questions/comments/suggestions for great local Korean food: [email protected] - http://facebook.com/givingthemic/ - Help us make the show! http://www.patreon.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.

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. https://www.patreon.com/givingthemic

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/ - @grandradioabyss @ashesforfoxes @comradegarrett @givingthemic - Questions/comments/suggestions for great local Korean food: [email protected] - http://facebook.com/givingthemic/ - Help us make the show! http://www.patreon.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 & 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. --- Follow Jacob on Twitch! http://www.twitch.tv/jacobmercy - @jacobmercy @givingthemic - Questions/comments/suggestions for great local Korean food: [email protected] - http://facebook.com/givingthemic/ - Help us make the show! http://www.patreon.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.

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 [email protected] - 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 [email protected] -Jody at [email protected] -Marj at [email protected] -- Follow Jacob on Twitch! http://www.twitch.tv/jacobmercy - Questions/comments/suggestions for great local Korean food: [email protected] - http://facebook.com/givingthemic/ - Help us make the show! http://www.patreon.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 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/ - Follow Jacob on Twitch! http://www.twitch.tv/jacobmercy - @ashesforfoxes @jacobmercy @givingthemic - Questions/comments/suggestions for great local Korean food: [email protected] - http://facebook.com/givingthemic/ - Help us make the show! http://www.patreon.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.

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/ - Follow Jacob on Twitch! http://www.twitch.tv/jacobmercy - @ashesforfoxes @jacobmercy @givingthemic - Questions/comments/suggestions for great local Korean food: [email protected] - http://facebook.com/givingthemic/ - Help us make the show! http://www.patreon.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 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 [email protected] or [email protected] - 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 - ------ Questions/comments/suggestions for great local Korean food: [email protected] - http://facebook.com/givingthemic/ - Help us make the show! http://www.patreon.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.

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: [email protected] - http://facebook.com/givingthemic/ - Help us make the show! http://www.patreon.com/givingthemic - - - - Main theme by The Mysterious Breakfast'r Cereal on SoundCloud @chiptheme - - The Homo Vulgaris podcast - https://soundcloud.com/hvulgaris - - All items trademarked and copyright their respective owners. Please don't sue. Please don't sue. Please don't sue.

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 - [email protected] - https://www.facebook.com/portlandtenantsunited/ Wimby TU - [email protected] - 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: [email protected] - http://facebook.com/givingthemic/ - Help us make the show! http://www.patreon.com/givingthemic - - - - Main theme by The Mysterious Breakfast'r Cereal on SoundCloud @chiptheme - - The Homo Vulgaris podcast - https://soundcloud.com/hvulgaris - - All items trademarked and copyright their respective owners. Please don't sue. Please don't sue. Please don't sue.

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_ - Follow Jacob on Twitch! https://www.twitch.tv/jacobmercy - @colestia3 @jacobmercy @givingthemic - Questions/comments/suggestions for great local Korean food: [email protected] - http://facebook.com/givingthemic/ - Help us make the show! http://www.patreon.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.

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: [email protected] - http://facebook.com/givingthemic/ - Help us make the show! http://www.patreon.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.

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: [email protected] @beckerachi @ashesforfoxes @givingthemic - Questions/comments/suggestions for great local Korean food: [email protected] - http://facebook.com/givingthemic/ - Help us make the show! http://www.patreon.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.

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 - - - - 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.

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 - Help us make the show! http://www.patreon.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.

Audio from Tim Faust's talk in Portland on Friday, July 20, 2018. You also hear Riley from our Medicare-for-All episode, too. - - - - Find us on FB: http://www.facebook.com/givingthemic/ - - - - Help us make the show! http://www.patreon.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 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 - - - - For show notes and further links: http://goo.gl/s47kxk - - - - Find us on FB: http://www.facebook.com/givingthemic/ - - - - Help us make the show! http://www.patreon.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 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/ - - - - - Show notes and links here: http://goo.gl/7r3P9g - - - - Find us on FB: http://www.facebook.com/givingthemic/ - - - - Help us make the show! http://www.patreon.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.

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 - - - - Find us on FB: http://www.facebook.com/givingthemic/ - - - - Help us make the show! http://www.patreon.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.

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. - - - - Find us on FB: http://www.facebook.com/givingthemic/ - - - - Help us make the show! http://www.patreon.com/givingthemic - - - - Show notes and further links: http://goo.gl/FmKbiv

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. - - - - Find us on FB: http://www.facebook.com/givingthemic/ - - - - Help us make the show! http://www.patreon.com/givingthemic - - - - Show notes and further links: http://goo.gl/o6DM5H

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/ - - - - https://arunkgupta.com/ - - - - More show notes/recs here: goo.gl/EfUTcX

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. - - - - Find us on Fb: https://www.facebook.com/givingthemic/ - - - - Help us make the show! https://www.patreon.com/givingthemic - - - - Show notes and recs here: http://goo.gl/BJxqWi

Douglas Lain from Zero Books returns! Comrade Communicator from the Intergalactic Workers League contacts us remotely about 1:14:00 in. -- Help us make the show! https://www.patreon.com/givingthemic - - Find us on FB: http://www.facebook.com/givingthemic/ -- Show notes: http://goo.gl/5ZEtPe. -- Check out Barkles The Dog the Game: GOTY edition : : http://barkles.dog/game -- _Bash Bash Revolution_ from Douglas Lain : : http://goo.gl/Gdfj7i -- Check out our last episode with Doug Lain: https://soundcloud.com/givingthemic/douglas-lain-from-zero-books-on-kill-all-normies-zizek-and-posadists-fixed

[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. - - - Show notes here: http://goo.gl/8hrgD8 - - - Help us make the show! https://www.patreon.com/givingthemic/

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. - Help us make this show! http://www.patreon.com/givingthemic/ -- Show notes here: http://goo.gl/uUKP4h

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. - Help us make this show! http://www.patreon.com/givingthemic/ -- Show notes here: http://goo.gl/uUKP4h

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/ Help us make this show! http://www.patreon.com/givingthemic/ -- Show notes here: goo.gl/49zdwM

(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/ Help us make this show! http://www.patreon.com/givingthemic/

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 - Show notes: https://goo.gl/aQBDgB

Update: if you dig this, check the followup! https://soundcloud.com/givingthemic/revenge-of-the-varn-with-c-derick-varn - - -- - - - - - 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. -- More notes and reading list: https://goo.gl/iESPhT -- Help us make the show! https://www.patreon.com/givingthemic -- UPDATE: Check up the followup episode https://soundcloud.com/givingthemic/revenge-of-the-varn-with-c-derick-varn

Help us make this show! http://www.patreon.com/givingthemic/ 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. More notes: https://goo.gl/H2M6R3

Help us make this show! http://www.patreon.com/givingthemic/ 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

Our Patreon is live! https://www.patreon.com/givingthemic 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 · ----- We're on Facebook! http://www.facebook.com/givingthemic · Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/givingthemic · Comments/Questions: [email protected] · 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 have a Patreon now! https://www.patreon.com/givingthemic/ 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. ----- We're on Facebook! http://www.facebook.com/givingthemic · Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/givingthemic · Comments/Questions: [email protected] · 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 have a Patreon now! https://www.patreon.com/givingthemic/ 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_ · ----- We're on Facebook now! http://www.facebook.com/givingthemic · Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/givingthemic · Comments/Questions: [email protected] · Main theme by The Mysterious Breakfast'r Cereal on SoundCloud @chiptheme · Editing by Michael at Entertainment Unlimited - http://www.euavp.com · All items trademarked and copyright their respective owners. Please don't sue. Please don't sue. Please don't sue.

We have a Patreon now! https://www.patreon.com/givingthemic/ 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 ----- We're on Facebook now! http://www.facebook.com/givingthemic · Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/givingthemic · Comments/Questions: [email protected] · Main theme by The Mysterious Breakfast'r Cereal on SoundCloud @chiptheme · Editing by Michael at Entertainment Unlimited - http://www.euavp.com · All items trademarked and copyright their respective owners. Please don't sue. Please don't sue. Please don't sue.

We have a Patreon now! https://www.patreon.com/givingthemic/ 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 · · · ----- We're on Facebook now! http://www.facebook.com/givingthemic · Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/givingthemic · Comments/Questions: [email protected] · Main theme by The Mysterious Breakfast'r Cereal on SoundCloud @chiptheme · Editing by Michael at Entertainment Unlimited - http://www.euavp.com · All items trademarked and copyright their respective owners. Please don't sue. Please don't sue. Please don't sue.

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 -- We're on Facebook now! www.facebook.com/givingthemic · Twitter: www.twitter.com/givingthemic · Comments/Questions: [email protected] · Main theme by The Mysterious Breakfast'r Cereal on SoundCloud @chiptheme · Editing by Michael at Entertainment Unlimited - www.euavp.com · All items trademarked and copyright their respective owners. Please don't sue. Please don't sue. Please don't sue.

We have a Patreon now! https://www.patreon.com/givingthemic/ 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. / / / / / 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 - Recs: - 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_ - / / / / / · · · We're on Facebook now! www.facebook.com/givingthemic · Twitter: www.twitter.com/givingthemic · Comments/Questions: [email protected] · Main theme by The Mysterious Breakfast'r Cereal on SoundCloud @chiptheme · Editing by Michael at Entertainment Unlimited - www.euavp.com · All items trademarked and copyright their respective owners. Please don't sue. Please don't sue. Please don't sue.

We have a Patreon now! https://www.patreon.com/givingthemic/ 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/ · · · We're on Facebook now! www.facebook.com/givingthemic · Twitter: www.twitter.com/givingthemic · Comments/Questions: [email protected] · Main theme by The Mysterious Breakfast'r Cereal on SoundCloud @chiptheme · Editing by Michael at Entertainment Unlimited - http://www.euavp.com · All items trademarked and copyright their respective owners. Please don't sue. Please don't sue. Please don't sue.

We have a Patreon now! https://www.patreon.com/givingthemic/ 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 ·· · · · We're on Facebook now! www.facebook.com/givingthemic · Twitter: www.twitter.com/givingthemic · Comments/Questions: [email protected] · Main theme by The Mysterious Breakfast'r Cereal on SoundCloud @chiptheme · Editing by Michael at Entertainment Unlimited - http://www.euavp.com · All items trademarked and copyright their respective owners. Please don't sue. Please don't sue. Please don't sue.

Listen to Part 1: http://soundcloud.com/givingthemic/ep-13-the-crow-w-jemiah-jon 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 · Check out Jon's graphic novel _Neil: An Existential Crisis_ from Crackling Imp Press: www.amazon.com/gp/product/0615483380 · We're on Facebook now! www.facebook.com/givingthemic · Twitter: www.twitter.com/givingthemic · Comments/Questions: [email protected] · 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.

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 · Check out Jemiah's work: https://www.amazon.com/Jemiah-Jefferson/e/B001KIG19U · Check out Jon's graphic novel _Neil: An Existential Crisis_ from Crackling Imp Press: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0615483380 · We're on Facebook now! www.facebook.com/givingthemic · Twitter: www.twitter.com/givingthemic · Comments/Questions: [email protected] · 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 have a Patreon now! https://www.patreon.com/givingthemic/ 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" · ---- We're on Facebook now! www.facebook.com/givingthemic · Twitter: www.twitter.com/givingthemic · Comments/Questions: [email protected] · Main theme by The Mysterious Breakfast'r Cereal at @chiptheme · All items trademarked and copyright their respective owners. Please don't sue. Please don't sue. Please don't sue.

We have a Patreon now! https://www.patreon.com/givingthemic/ -- IMPORTANT: if you have NO IDEA what we're talking about, watch this first and all will be answered: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOvEYaE1CoE ----- We're on Facebook now! www.facebook.com/givingthemic // 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 ---- Twitter: www.twitter.com/givingthemic // Comments/Questions: [email protected] // Main theme by The Mysterious Breakfast'r Cereal at @chiptheme // All items trademarked and copyright their respective owners. Please don't sue. Please don't sue. Please don't sue.