Beast Coast

This week Adam, Raya, and Geoff sit down to talk about Pitchfork's Top 200 Albums (and Songs) of the 2010s. Who's missing? Who shouldn't have made the list? Why is there SO much Drake? And what is gained and lost when we rank art by ever-changing standards?

Raya, Adam, and Geoff sit down to discuss cancel culture, the backlash against it, and the myopia of being personally invested in the careers of millionaires in the first place.

Raya, Adam, and Geoff are back this week talking control, the elderly, and Moby's terrible tattoo choices.    Editor Note: Raya is back on editing duties and a little rusty. Please forgive the echo this week. 

This week the gang sits down to talk about our Spring cleaning activities. Whether it's physical, emotional, spiritual, or political, now's the perfect time to take stock of what you need and get rid of what you don't.

This week the gang talks about that sweet, sweet Green New Deal and how to get your Grandma Ethel and cousin Becky on board.

This week the gang examines the nadir of 90s nostalgia and dissects Weezer's tumultuous history - the highs, the lows, the really low lows. Does their discography paint the picture of an artist falling to pieces? Or is Rivers Cuomo a record industry plant? Is it better to burn out than to fade away?

Augmented experiences? Psychotropic therapy? Pup Play? We uncover what the government doesn't want you to know about the future, all while examining multi-generational nuance in our exploration of "temporary tech"!

We share our thoughts, hopes, and fears for 2019 and beyond, and finish up by discussing the biggest pop culture personnel changeup since Marcel left Friends.

We humbly look back on three years of being The Velvet Underground of leftist podcasts.

Raya is back to discuss matters of local governance and outrage of national prominence. Who is responsible for the MAGA children and what is to be done?

What the marriage of a Japanese school administrator to his holographic wife teaches us about personhood in the 21st century.

We dive into the history and cultural impact of everybody's favorite problematic secret agent. In the final segment we're joined by Raya to discuss the future of the series after Daniel Craig. We're also joined by Geoff's dog Mavis, who had some (unintelligible) thoughts of her own.

Adam, Geoff, and Shane discuss a wild week of news and explore the psychological effects of living through a decade of World Historical Events. What happens when The End doesn’t arrive?

Friend of the show Corey Pein (@coreypein) joins our esteemed panel of French political experts (Adam, Raya, and Shane) as we dissect the Yellow Vest protests. Come for the baguette jokes, stay for the butchered pronunciations!

Get your fidgets spinning and pull up that weighted blanket. Raya joins us to discuss the experience, science, and commodification of anxiety.

You CAN go home again. We just did. Bam. Welcome to 1998, new fish.

Hey everyone! We're off this week, but with all that's been happening in the world, we thought you might enjoy this episode we did last December with Virginia Delegate and DSA member Lee Carter (@carterforva). We talked with him shortly after his upset victory about how we can help in our communities here and now and build democratic socialism moving forward.

We talk to Raya's sister Leah (wait, she has a sister? is this canon?) about cons, cosplay, crossplay, and roleplay. Don't worry, Geoff helps us out with the vocab.

Ahead of the centennial of the 1918 Armistice that ended it, Shane and Adam explore the causes, conduct, and cultural impact of the Great War. Lots of book recommendations if you nerds are into that sort of thing.

We explore the promise and peril of two artificial intelligences teaching one another. What can Generative Adversarial Networks teach us about our world and ourselves? Also, Geoff reviews computer generated celebrity porn videos.

We eschew current events entirely and deep dive into the video games that defined our childhoods. Happy 25th Birthday, Myst!

Remember when the greatest threat to Western Civilization was political correctness? We do. We dive into one and a half stone cold classics of 90s reactionary GenXerism - PCU and Demolition Man - to figure out why a decent, law-abiding rabble-rouser can't get a goddamn hamburger.

Shane and Adam catch everyone up on what they've been up to over summer break. Then they discus the decline of Futurism as an ideology and aesthetic. How did we get from Dr. Jonas Venture Sr. to Dr. Jonas Venture Jr. in just one generation? Also, new music from friend of the show @lilbadsnacks!

This week Geoff, Raya, and Adam sit down to talk about why millennials are hell bent on killing everything boomers hold sacred...like Hooters?

This week we once again welcome journalist and author Corey Pein (@coreypein) to the show to chat about the recent Unite The Right II "rally" in DC and why direct action gets the goods. 

Raya joins us as we talk to Rebecca from @swapfoods about how what we eat defines who we are. We then make slight detours into generational nutritional warfare and the Western Pennsylvania - Southern Michigan key party scene.

Gather round folks - this one's one humdinger short of a hootenanny. We discuss new music genres, reptile anatomy, and do a deep dive into two new j@VersoBooks to help us make sense of our increasingly dystopian surroundings.

This week we talk to Rolo, one of the creators of DSA-LA’s proposed Food 4 Solidarity campaign. We also talk about trade policy, the defense budget, and Adam’s summer internship with ISIS.

This week Geoff, Adam, and Shane discuss self-care. Is a little existential terror a good thing? What is the cure for alienation? Will Geoff ever fix his washing machine? Also, PLEASE consider donating to our friend Sarah's GoFundMe at https://bit.ly/2mnjH6x

This week Raya calls out The Patriarchy and reminds us that dunking on Centrists is not always the best anti-fascist strategy. 

This week we talk to Ryan H. Walsh (@JahHills) about his brilliant book Astral Weeks: A Secret History of 1968 and share some of our favorite Boston stories. We also catch up on the week's news, offer tips for gopher hunting and discuss Insane Clown Posse's history as America's most successful anarchist group.

This week we sit down with legitimate electronic music expert Troy (@_SinPhi) to talk about all the stuff we missed our first time around. We also manage to talk about strange diets, 90s video game soundtracks, and obscure cartoon shows!

This week we celebrate Edith's birthday, discuss Geoff's return to Roller Derby, psychotic AI, and offer advice to incels!

This week we sit down with host of the new podcast Art and Labor, OK Fox (@artandlaborpod @0KF0X), to talk about pretentious private schools, the lasting impact of 1968 on the history of art and protest movements, and the majesty of the Megatherium, the elephant-sized giant sloth of the Pliocene.

This week Adam and Geoff are joined by Jesse, who makes music and produces videos on YouTube under the moniker Bad Snacks (@lilbadsnacks). We sit down to talk about French cartoon shows, vegan synth parties, and why getting outside your artistic comfort-zone is a necessity.

We showed up to deliver out weekly allotment of dick jokes and then this happened. We somehow still managed to touch on French Existentialism, Filene's Basement, the Cynics, Yojimbo, The Big Lebowski, Pacific Rim 2, and Mr. Rogers, among other things.

This week we rub the magic lamp so hard it turns into a monkey's paw, and save our buddy Adam from an existential crisis.

Shane, Adam, and Geoff all sit down in the same room (!) to talk about the rise and demise of the professional critic. We also chat about recommendation algorithms, artisanal Rosé, and the downside of achieving your dreams at 19.

Fire up that 14k modem and join us as we debunk our favorite rumors of the 1990s. Remember: If you don't love us at your Raya episodes, you don't deserve us at our guest episodes.

This week we're joined by singer, songwriter, producer, photographer, and all-around Renaissance man Micah E. Wood (@micahelie) to talk about his creative process, the close-knit Baltimore music scene, and the difference between Greyhounds and Weimaraners.

If you could fund any line of research, what would it be? Robotic cockroaches? A cure for mole conjunctivitis? A soothing balm for men to use when Raya spits hot fire? We discuss these ideas and more!

This week we talk to Canadian journalist and noted firearms expert Rob Rousseau about wrestling, sports, and politics.

We take an extended look at the politics, economics, and culture of Detroit in 1973. Come for the music recommendations, stay for the urban planning manifesto!

The second part of our conversation with Brandon Sutton (@prettybadlefty)! We talk Somalian Disco music, cults, romantic comedies, The Fast & The Furious, and Saddam Hussein among other things. Shane laughs so hard he cries.

Brandon Sutton (@prettybadlefty), host of the excellent podcast The Discourse drops by to talk about Flat Earth Conspiracies and Fashwave, the alt-right's new, lamer version of Vaporwave. Our conversation ran for nearly two hours, so we've broken this ep into two parts;  the rest of our conversation will be released later in the week!

We conclude our discussion on fascism and the alt-right this week with Molly (@socialistdogmom), co-chair of Charlottesville DSA!

Adam and Geoff sit down to talk about fascism: What it is, where we've seen it, and what's been done about it. Next week we'll have a special guest to talk more about antifascist organizing at the grassroots level; we hope this serves as an introduction to how we got here.

Well y'all, it was a lift but we did it. This is the entire objective history of every genre, sub-genre, and trend in electronic music for the last seventy years. Please @ us with your praise.

This week we explore quantifying social credit, what makes a good citizen, what makes a great artist, and the appeal of tuning out entirely.

This week we catch up with friend of the show Corey Pein (@coreypein) to talk about conspiracies, journalism, the heyday of the CIA, and the ongoing tensions with North Korea.

This week Raya and Adam sit down with Justine (AKA The Marxist Mrs. Maisel AKA @existentialpink) to talk about reproductive rights, Marxist feminism, bowling with The Mountain Goats, and burning Volkswagen Beetles.