Three vaguely leftist comedians make a bare minimum effort to be less dumb. By @glvno @merrydevo & @benjaminhoffazz
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Zambon teaches us about World War 2
We watched 2 Fast 2 Furious so you don't have to
Tebbe assures you that high school mg was a sweet sensitive boy whom everyone liked
Benjamin tells us what he would do if he was The Lord
We try to reconstruct the plot of The Fast And The Furious, which we all just watched, and we cannot do it
Bigger Than Bernie co-authors Meagan Day and Micah Uetricht came through to talk protests, organizing, and leftist media
Julie Mitchell (@juliepoptart) returns to discuss removing her own IUD
Ryan Mosgrove came through to talk about organizing, eating trash, and moving forward with the American left. Follow Ryan @workerism & yr hosts @glvno @benjaminhoffazz @devodupuy
Grizzled podcast veteran Kath Barbadoro (What A Time To Be Alive; Lie, Cheat, & Steal) joins us in our weekly heroic endeavor of Friends Talking To Each Other. Follow her @kathbarbadoro & follow yer hosts @glvno @merrydevo @benjaminhoffazz
DR. daddy of DR. daddy'z WHO DAT nola crime-wave syndicate logged on
Turnip prices & Platform Crocs
In which we yell about Parasite, a very recent movie that just came out a short time ago
New Orleans DSA co-chair Jordan Falciani came thru
Tim Faust (Health Justice Now) talks to us about single payer, how public options are set up to fail, and the ways in which healthcare activism can function as the tip of the spear in a much broader campaign for a just society
Geneva Joy is a stone cold crusher of a comic and is literally sponsored by a bidet company, making her the perfect guest for this podcast
Arish Singh (The Onion, Monkey Wrench) came by to talk politics & comedy
Mindy climbed out of the Skype window like the girl from the ring and recorded an episode with us in the flesh
Geoffrey Gauchet (The Blurst of Times) came by to immediately get absolutely covered in beer
The first 45 minutes are with the inimitable Kate Willett (Reply Guys, Netflix, Comedy Central) and the rest is just yer humble hosts hangin out because we refuse to release an episode that isn't 100 years long because we believe in the parasocial safety net
We invited our friend Rebekah over so she could dunk on us for ninety minutes straight
We talked to mechanical engineering professor and future enthusiast Ashley Guy about the utopian and dystopian possibilities of cutting edge tech
Jacobin staff writer Meagan Day drops by to make the case that a) liberal progressivism just doesn't cut it and b) it's generally a bad idea to ever do a tweet
Jean tells us about his history as a criminal mastermind & MD tries out a new catch phrase
Best Undiscovered Comedian In Louisiana (Thrillist) Camille Roane (No Lye Comedy, Black Girl Giggles) dropped in to talk about professional envy, local white smugness, and doing stand-up in front of conservative family members
Philadelphia activist and socialist matchmaker Mindy Isser (@lil_yenta) came on to talk compatibility, cancelation, and getting mad online
Burlesque dancer & cosplayer Remy Dee talks about nerd culture gatekeeping, burlesque's impact on her romantic relationships, and how horny an audience member is allowed to be
Sparky & Oren from Current Affairs' editorial team came through to talk about fighting ICE in court, consumer finance law as wealth redistribution, and how leftists should approach jury duty
Jake Flores (Pod Damn America) came through to talk about clapter comedy, free speech dorks, and life in the space between nihilism and sanctimony
Journalist Henrick Karoliszyn drops in to talk about his work covering predictive policing and the use of psychedelics to treat trauma and depression.
Death penalty abolitionist Daria Reaven came thru. About 30 minutes of this episode is about bodily fluids and the rest is about institutionalized murder
Alli DeJong of @HunkerDowncast dropped by to talk water management, Rage Against The Machine, and MD's mysterious butt blood
Alcoholism, Elizabeth Warren, and what to do with serial killers once prisons are abolished
Jeff D dropped by to talk about crowd work, slow pedestrians, and the cure for whiskey dick
Antinatalism, sexual validation, and "emotional labor"
Democratic candidate for Louisiana Commissioner of Agriculture & Forestry Margee Green drops by to talk food justice and climate action while The Man tries to censor us with strategically timed lawn care Volunteer your time and/or money @ greenforagriculture.com
In which we discuss suicidal ideation, (((echoes))), and where wigs come from (viz., Benjamin). You can read the Sylvie McNamara review we talked about here: https://podcastreview.org/review/red-scare/
Investigative journalist Michael Isaac Stein (The Lens, The Intercept, The New Republic, The Nation, WIRED, etc) dropped by to talk about his work covering New Orleans' extensive surveillance system, homeless encampment sweeps, and the stranglehold a handful of consultants have maintained for decades over millions in city contracts. https://thelensnola.org/2019/03/28/political-connections-contributions-helped-utility-consultants-keep-lucrative-contracts-for-decades-former-council-members-say/ https://thelensnola.org/2018/12/06/june-drug-bust-shows-potential-pitfalls-with-citywide-surveillance-system-defense-attorneys-say/
We've wanted to get Jean on the show for months but for some reason it took us two hours to ask him a single question
Topics include Michael's new bidet, MD's ingenious plan to discredit Beto O'Rourke, and CBT (both of them)
Cate dropped by to talk about police appropriation of DSA initiatives, remind us of the cowardice of doomerism, and plug our podcast for us??
The BELOVED Laura Sanders is finally on the pod. She roasts Benjamin, tells us about what it was like to bomb for 30 minutes in front of her dad, and teaches us how to avoid giving false compliments to ugly babies
Nell drops by to talk social work, smelly boyfriends, and biodegradable straws