Podcasts by 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/
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89. Lain Change feat. Doug Lain from 2021-12-07T05:01:37
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 ...
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88. Part 2 of Teaching Covid-Year 2 (ft. C Derick Varn, Melisa Crosby, and Beth Salmon) from 2021-11-08T04:07:22
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 stres...
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88. Teaching Covid, Year 2 (part 1) - feat. C. Derick Varn, Melisa Crosby, and Beth Salmon from 2021-10-31T02:42:27
Part 1 of this talk, the whole ep is available now on Patreon at Http://www.patreon.com/givingthemic.
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87. Mark Levin's American Marxism - Part 2 from 2021-10-12T04:16:42
Part 2 of our review of Mark Levin's American Marxism. It doesn't get better than Part 1.
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87. Mark Levin's American Marxism: The Book - Part 1 from 2021-10-04T02:14:50
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 ...
86. [RE-UPLOAD] Leftist Veteran Chat on the Afghanistan Withdrawal and Hero Worship Culture from 2021-09-19T21:16:01
[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 wa...
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86. Leftist Veteran Chat on the Afghanistan Withdrawal and Hero Worship Culture from 2021-09-19T06:44:13
[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 wors...
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85. Cancelling, with Ben Burgis from 2021-08-06T04:13:18
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 disa...
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84. March for Medicare for All from 2021-07-16T04:28:21
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...
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*BONUS EP* - Stopping by the Varn Vlog (ft. C. Derick Varn) -July 2021 from 2021-07-13T22:07:46
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 ...
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83. Getting Relief to the People (ft. the 1040Bloc) from 2021-06-15T04:50:32
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 wo...
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82. Cooking in Nomadland, ft. Arun Gupta & Jason Myles from 2021-06-04T03:14:37
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 ...
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81. Only the Dead Have Seen the End of Culture War (ft. Andrew Hartman) from 2021-05-24T04:02:52
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...
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80. Weed Workers of the World, Unite! (ft. the Cannabis Workers Coalition) from 2021-05-12T04:17:25
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...
79. Books About UFOs (and Communists) w/ A.M. Gittlitz from 2021-04-16T04:22:26
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 ...
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78. Market Worship: Texas, Gamestonks, and Libertarians (ft. Rob Larson, Erik Dean, and Mitch Green) from 2021-02-25T06:41:21
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 M...
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77. All Power to the Meeple! Leftist Boardgames with Brian from the TESA Collective from 2021-02-03T05:38:19
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 gam...
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76. The Foul Cyber Year of Our Lord 2020 from 2021-01-19T06:48:24
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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75. Organize the Unemployed ! from 2020-11-24T02:38:10
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, ...
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74. Tenant Organizing & Its History from 2020-11-02T04:30:42
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 Portlan...
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73. Snapshot of a Movement - 2019 DSA Natl Conv - Part 3 from 2020-10-08T04:34:50
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 b...
73. Snapshot of a Movement - 2019 DSA Natl Conv - Part 2 from 2020-09-22T04:16:55
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 Con...
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73. Snapshot of a Movement - 2019 DSA Natl Conv - Part 1 from 2020-09-09T05:06:55
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 Conv...
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72. Attempting to Talk Nietzsche, part 2 (ft. I Learned Nothing) from 2020-08-18T01:41:57
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 ...
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71. Reaching for Nietzsche (ft. I Learned Nothing) from 2020-07-26T10:18:20
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...
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70. Masks, Reaction, and the Death Drive(ft Tad Delay) from 2020-06-21T05:57
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 s...
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69. Online Teaching Ain't Teaching -- Education During Covid from 2020-06-07T04:51:57
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...
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68. More Quaran-chat with Nat from 2020-05-18T00:06:19
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.
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67. Objections to MMT, Keynes & the New Deal, and more (ft. Erik Dean and Mitch Green)- Part 2 from 2020-04-26T19:55:57
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 Monetar...
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67. Stimulus, MMT, how bad Private Equity is, and more (ft Erik Dean and Mitch Green)- Part 1 from 2020-04-20T04:38:01
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 ...
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66. College Under Quarantine ft. Ami Sommariva and Ben Burgis from 2020-04-09T02:37:49
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 Co...
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65. Life Under Quarantine from 2020-03-31T06:01:27
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" s...
[Rebroadcast] - Walter Benjamin, Information, & the OverWatchmen from 2020-03-24T06:57:16
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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[Rebroadcast] Big Daddy Varn's Baby Leftist Primer (ft. C Derick Varn) from 2020-03-17T06:50:59
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.
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64. Albert Lee, DSA- and Our Revolution-Endorsed Candidate for Oregon's 3rd District from 2020-02-28T05:54:21
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 lat...
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63. Pop the Varn! Part 2 (ft C. Derick Varn) from 2020-02-19T06:32:43
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...
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63 - Pop the Varn! (ft. Derick Varn) - part 1 from 2020-02-10T03:30:08
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.
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62. Game Workers of the World, Unite! (ft. Videodante) from 2020-01-17T05:52:59
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.
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61. Fortnight Chat with Nephews from 2019-12-23T07:49:36
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 ti...
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60. The True Scotsman Fallacy - Part 2 (ft. Sean of TheWorstFriend) from 2019-12-06T06:28:39
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...
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60. The True Scotsman Fallacy - Part 1(ft. Sean from TheWorstFriend) from 2019-11-22T05:45:07
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 ...
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59. Mulder Is a Garbage Partner and Scully Deserves Better (ft. Candy, Dawn, and Ben Burgis) from 2019-11-03T21:31:09
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 on...
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58. health justice round table ft. tim faust from 2019-09-25T02:33:35
SEE TIM IN PORTLAND! Thursday(9/26) at 7:30 at Powells downtown.
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Tim Faust(@crulge) returns to the show to do a properly roundtable discussion with local Portland healthcare activists a...
#57: Propaganda is Good (ft. Sara June & Jake Flores) from 2019-09-12T02:54:53
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 po...
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56 - Max Elbaum and Lessons Learned from the New Communist Movement and the SDS from 2019-08-23T05:46:58
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 Regrettab...
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Ep 55 - Red State Teacher Strikes ft. Eric Blanc from 2019-07-24T04:54:20
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.
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Ep 54 - Paige Kreisman for Oregon House District 42 from 2019-07-04T05:14:56
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 ...
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Ep 53 Part 2: Arguing, with Ben Burgis from 2019-06-17T04:07:46
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 th...
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Ep 53 Part 1: Arguing, with Ben Burgis from 2019-06-12T05:57
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_....
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Ep52 - Part 2 - The DSA NW Unity Conference from 2019-05-26T05:21:35
Part 2! The 1st-ever NW Unity Conference for the Democratic Socialists of America was held in early April, 2019, in Portland, Oregon.
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Ep52 - The DSA NW Unity Conference (Part 1) from 2019-05-21T05:03:46
Check out part 2 here: https://soundcloud.com/givingthemic/ep52-part-2-the-dsa-nw-unity-conference
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ep 51 - Is There a Journalism Crisis in America Today? from 2019-05-03T05:01:03
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 th...
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Ep 50 - Part 3 - Eco-Fascism (feat. C Derick Varn) from 2019-04-26T07:19
Part 3 of 3 of our extended conversation with Derick Varn. The full talk is up at Patreon at http://www.patreon.com/givingthemic/
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C Derick Varn finishes his extended talk with us by getti...
Ep 50 - Varn-ishing the "Truth" Part 2 - (w/ C Derick Varn) from 2019-04-21T19:01:24
Part 2 of our extended conversation with Derick Varn. The full talk is up at Patreon at http://www.patreon.com/givingthemic/
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C Derick Varn continues to give us a primer on how to interpre...
Ep 50 - 5 Rules to Conspiracies with C Derick Varn - Part 1 from 2019-04-18T04:05:56
Part 1 of our extended conversation with Derick Varn. The full talk is up at Patreon at http://www.patreon.com/givingthemic/
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C Derick Varn returns to give us a primer on how to interpret ...
[Teaser] Bonus audio from Ep49 - Gothic Marxism & Revolutionary Pessimism from 2019-04-14T06:35:41
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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EP49 - Gothic Marxism & Revolutionary Pessimism (w/ The Regrettable Century) from 2019-03-30T08:58:03
For BONUS audio from this episode, check out the Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/posts/bonus-audio-for-25684365
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EP48 - Recovering Alex Jones' Memories About the Satanic Panic w/ JG Michael and Joseph Flatley from 2019-03-11T04:14:15
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 G...
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Ep47 - Hot for Teacher (Strikes) - with Candy, Jody, and Marj from 2019-02-26T06:00:16
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 act...
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EP46 : Part 2 : A Conspiracy Does Not a Theory Make (feat. Arun Gupta) from 2019-02-05T05:15:25
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 Mal...
EP46 : Conspiracy: Just, like, a theory? Part 1 (feat. Corey Pein & Arun Gupta) from 2019-01-26T05:40:09
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 con...
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EP 45 - The January 19th #MeToo Speak Out & March(with the Socialist-Feminist Caucus) from 2019-01-15T05:45:49
This Saturday, January 19th, there's going to be a #MeToo Speak Out at Terry Schrunk Plaza in Portland, Oregon, starting at 10am.
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Ep 44 - Economics: What Is To Be Done? from 2019-01-04T05:41:19
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 Khodaparas...
Ep 43 - Housing Justice and Tenants Unions from 2018-12-17T04:49:39
THE RENT IS TOO DAMN HIGH, BUT YOU CAN DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT. LISTEN TO FIND OUT HOW.
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Kim & Tabby from the Wimby Tenants Union join Margot from Portland Tenants United to talk Garrett & ...
EP 42 - Peggle is Not Socialist (feat. David Cribb) from 2018-11-15T05:00:26
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, ...
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Reverse Psychology Works -- On Stephen King's Pet Sematary from 2018-10-18T03:51:41
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 compelli...
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Socialist Feminism 101 from 2018-09-04T02:49:45
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 a...
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Ideology 101: Liberalism vs Socialism (with Jason Lawrence)(Part 2) from 2018-08-27T05:23:55
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 R...
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Ideology 101: Liberalism vs Socialism (with Jason Lawrence)(Part 1) from 2018-08-21T04:19:27
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, ...
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Tim Faust's Health Justice from 2018-07-27T05:30:38
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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Organizing for Medicare-For-All(with Riley Brann and Tim Faust) from 2018-07-19T05:15:40
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 ...
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Organizing 101 - Part 2 from 2018-07-16T02:05:06
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 ...
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Organizing 101 - Part 1 from 2018-07-12T05:33:47
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,...
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Podcasts Good, Silicon Valley Bad (with Corey Pein) from 2018-06-07T04:33:49
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 bookt...
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The Hard Times of '80s Nostalgia (with Ian Williams) from 2018-05-14T01:10:46
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-cl...
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Bacon, Urinating Anarchists, and Pre-Giuliani NYC (with Arun Gupta) from 2018-04-06T06:02:25
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...
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Revenge of the Varn (with C. Derick Varn) from 2018-03-25T05:11:02
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, an...
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Close Encounters of the Posadist Kind (with Douglas Lain and Comrade Communicator) from 2018-03-06T03:11:23
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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Douglas Lain from Zero Books on Kill All Normies, Zizek, and Posadists-FIXED from 2018-02-10T06:34:08
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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 Ange...
(RE-UPLOAD) From Fan to Fan Fiction, Hannibal to #Hannigram from 2018-01-09T08:01:41
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"...
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From Fan to Fan Fiction, Hannibal to #Hannigram from 2018-01-09T05:31:58
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"...
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Paul Guinan's Meaning of Life, Comics, & Patreon - Part 2 from 2017-12-11T04:24:38
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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Paul Guinan's Meaning of Life, Comics, & Patreon - Part 1 from 2017-12-01T04:57
(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 ...
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Portland Democratic Socialists of America & You from 2017-10-24T04:29:25
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(...
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Big Daddy Varn's Baby Leftist Primer (with C. Derick Varn) from 2017-10-17T04:01:17
Update: if you dig this, check the followup! https://soundcloud.com/givingthemic/revenge-of-the-varn-with-c-derick-varn
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A LOT of people got radicalized and activated by po...
EP25 - The Obligatory Star Trek Episode from 2017-10-11T01:59:32
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Natasha(@ashesforfoxes), Garrett(@comradegarrett), and I recorded a snap reaction cast to the two-part pilot/prologue of Star T...
EP 24 - Walter Benjamin, Information, & the OverWatchmen from 2017-09-25T05:35:11
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On this episode, Jacob(@jacobmercy) joins Natasha(@ashesforfoxes), Garrett(@comradegarrett), and I talk about information overl...
EP 23 - Harry Potter & the Standard of Gold w/ @anomalily from 2017-09-10T07:03:09
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Lillian(@anomalily) from the podcast/website OhMyDollar joins us to talk about basic budgeting, handling financial anxiety, and...
Ep 22 - Gettin' More Radical from 2017-08-21T04:28:08
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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 wer...
Ep 21 - A Very Special Episode - TEEN DRAMA - Part 2 from 2017-07-28T05:57:54
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AND NOW THE EXCITING CONCLUSION of our two-parter on TEEN DRAMA! TeamMom Tara(@tcbbiggs), Natasha(@ashesforfoxes), and I...
Ep 20 - A Very Special Episode - TEEN DRAMA - Part 1 from 2017-07-19T04:25:33
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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 ...
Ep 19 - Sports, Fandom, and Phil Hartman w/ TeamMom Tara from 2017-06-06T05:05:41
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TeamMom Tara(@tcbbiggs) from the Blazer's Edge podcast joins Natasha(@ashesforfoxes), Garrett(@comradegarrett), and mysel...
Ep 18 - Rogue One and Grilled Cheese and College Radio from 2017-05-23T03:49:19
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. ...
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Ep 17 - Redpillers, the Post-Apocalypse, and Jenkem, all in one show?! from 2017-04-24T03:14:07
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Natasha(@ashesforfoxes), Garrett(@comradegarrett), & I started by talking about Gamergate/RedPill/MRA bollocks, and naturally ...
Ep 16 - P.S.Kayfabe - What Does It Mean? from 2017-03-28T04:14:33
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Natasha(@ashesforfoxes) & Garrett(@comradegarrett) join me once again to cover why pro-wrestling is critical to an unders...
Ep 15 - The Johnlock Consipracy & Other Fan Weirdness with Natasha & Garrett from 2017-03-06T01:00:44
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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 r...
Ep14 - B-Side to Our Crow Episode with Jemiah & Jon from 2017-02-06T00:51:15
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A rough b-side accompaniment to our last episode on the Crow, this was our _first_ attempt at recording a C...
Ep 13 - The Crow w/ Jemiah & Jon from 2017-01-09T05:23:13
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...
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Ep 12 - Work Travel Stories & Other Delights from 2016-12-12T05:15:14
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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 r...
Ep 11 - Neil Breen's "Fateful Findings" & Everything Else from 2016-11-21T04:36:23
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Ep 10 - Comix Life in Portland - Part 2 - Cosmic Monkey Comics (2 of 2) from 2016-11-04T05:44:08
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...
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Ep 9 - Comix Life in Portland - Part 2 - Cosmic Monkey Comics (1 of 2) from 2016-10-29T22:53:23
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...
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Ep 8 - Self-Publishing How-To from 2016-10-16T01:28:08
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 figh...
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Ep 7 - The Stallone Show from 2016-10-11T04:39:45
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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 a...
Ep 6 - Comix Life in Portland - Part 1 - Bridge City Comics from 2016-09-25T06:06:05
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 mo...
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Ep 5 - Music Recs and XOXO Fest Convo from 2016-09-18T05:59:01
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.
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Ep 4 - Go / Weiqi / Baduk - History of the Game, and How It's Used in American Film from 2016-08-22T06:01:40
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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 cultu...
Ep 3 - Mini-ep of Music Recs from 2016-08-16T06:53:07
1st mini ep of music recs! Bands you need to hear:
RVIVR - Olympia, WA - http://rvivr.bandcamp.com/
Pinkshinyultrablast - St. Petersburg, Russia - http://pinkshinyultrablast.ban...
Ep 2 - British TV Fandom, American Style from 2016-08-05T04:29:54
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
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Fresh Meat
Bad Educa...
Giving the Mic to the Wrong Person - Ep 1 - Paranormal Investigations from 2016-08-01T03:49:44
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.
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Lore...