113 - The Jakarta Method by Vincent Bevins (Part I)

We begin our Book Club series on Vincent Bevins' The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program that Shaped Our World about one of the most pivotal yet hugely unsung hinge points in the Cold War, centered around th...

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Nov 05, 2021
000 - New Nightmare (1994) - Commentary Track

This is another one the of seven commentaries recorded on Halloween 2021 for the A Nightmare on Elm Street franchise commentary marathon we did. We're now designating movie commentaries as exclusively for patrons of our aptly named 'patreon'. But sin...

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Nov 02, 2021
112 - Jailed Innocents and Fauci's Three Pillars of Evil

Updates on both Donziger and Assange. The strike wave continues. Or does it? Avoid billions in income taxes with these 3 E-Z Steps! Fauci is irredeemably awful for many reasons here are three standouts.  A man lived off of Six Flags concessions every...

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Oct 29, 2021
110 - The Machine Stops by E.M. Forster

In another edition of our ongoing Book Club series, we discuss the bafflingly prescient and hugely unknown E.M. Forster proto-science fiction and dystopian story The Machine Stops. This was written in 1909 yet managed to very accurately predict techn...

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Oct 22, 2021
109 - Flow My Beers, the Policemen Said

We discuss the largely forgotten story of one of the largest riots in New York City history. In September 1992, some 10,000 off duty NYPs descended upon City Hall in a racially charged and drunken protest/riot, with their fury directed at Mayor David...

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Oct 19, 2021
107 - Reverse Sinema Logistics of the Faux-vel Office

The distractions of the interlocking bullshit from both QAnon and BlueAnon as recently exemplified by Tucker Carlson and Third Reich wunderkind Steven Miller's latest flame-fanning nonsense about the White House's fake Oval Office. The bizarre subter...

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Oct 12, 2021
106 - Stowing Away on The Korean Wave

We address several excellent questions and comments from a listener (u/joshuaism) about Korean culture, partially through the lens of the currently extremely popular Korean streaming series Squid Game. The nature of Korean entertainment on the global...

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Oct 07, 2021