Podcasts about Golden Square

Aus Day sausage holder thief Cogho tricked by grandkids What's on for the weekend? Strange sight at Golden Square cafe Jules' weird ritual National anthem replacements Booth St Bridge Another sports injury See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Cogho & Jules catch up with Bendigo Foodshare CEO Michelle Murphy on their new Golden Square site, word up the adults on Hargreaves Mall's pop up ice skating rink and find out how human Dr Nick Coatsworth from Do You Want to Live Forever? really is!See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Cogho's lucky to be alive after his physical feat somewhere in Bendigo... is it very relaxing? Jules can't say the name of a bridge in Golden Square but she's not alone with tricky words to say! And will the trend of buying "dumb phones" instead of smartphones hit the studio?See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Frank Skinner's on Absolute Radio every Saturday morning and you can enjoy the show's podcast right here. The Radio Academy Award winning gang bring you a show which is like joining your mates for a coffee... So, put the kettle on, sit down and enjoy UK commercial radio's most popular podcast. This week Frank has been to see Slash and visited Paris. The team also discuss becoming Harry Styles tour guides, an underwear vending machine and leaving Golden Square.

It's our final day in our Golden Square Studios, and before we move to our new home on Monday, Dave and the team reminisce on Absolute Radio's last fifteen years in these studios. AND... Dave had high hopes for today's Five Words Five Grand player!

Bush is flying solo today and as Hometime prepares to leave Golden Square, he has a brand new game for you all.

Bush saw something magical at the weekend, plus he & Richie are looking to say farewell to their old studios in Golden Square by getting a historic blue plaque made to commemorate the building

Join us on a stroll back in time to Victorian-era Montreal, when some of Canada's richest families settled on the slope of Mount Royal in the Golden Square Mile. We'll look at what the remaining row houses and mansions tell us about power, wealth, even scandal in bygone Montreal. And we'll hear how the changing face of the landscape invites us to reflect on the balance between building something new and preserving our built past.

EPISODEIn this episode, Josh and Minh sit down together to chat about the due diligence that is done every day in assessing SDA projects & locations etc to fulfil our preparation to present to our investors. Past podcast episodes talk so often about data research, but our team hasn't really spoken too much about 'product assessment' per se. In this episode, Josh helps our listeners better understand the mechanics behind our "DD" to workout exactly that.The guys use a live example of an upcoming new release: Chum St, Golden Square, Bendigo, VICTORIAOur team as a whole, are working with a developer to help bring to market 5 HPS townhouse villas, which are designed as OOA + 2 participants (3B/3B/1C). The discussion centres around what needs to be put together in the background in order to ensure that we as a team, are satisfied with the demand in any particular area. In addition, the design, the builder, and the end product which are meant for long term tenancy for SDA residents, needs to be assessed carefully too. while also giving SIL Provider (not selected yet) the opportunity to run their business in an efficient and profitable manner by having 5 dwellings side by side to manage. This sit down chat isn't a in depth discussion about the development itself, but more so about what we as a small team of SDA professionals, need to gather and check over first. We do go off on a tangent a little about other matters (apologies) but it just shows how passionate that we are as a business, to ensure that we are always transparent and focused on delivering a positive outcome for the community.Our "Due Diligence To Do List"- Location - Demand- Pipeline Products in Area- Floor Plans- Inclusions- Pricing- Access Architect- SDA Assessor - SDA Provider - SIL Provider- Builder Background Check- Listing Agreement- DA / BA with Council- Renders- Contracts- Deposit(s) payable- Information Memorandum (IM)- Podcast Interview w/ Developer- Inspecting other builds of proposed builder--GOALS:It is our goal to see Participants with high-needs disabilities being appropriately housed in accommodation that is right for them. Purpose-built homes promote opportunities for social and economic participation, enhance self-determination, and create conditions for Participants to lead vibrant, safe, and independent lives.www.robustdesign.com.auwww.highphysicalsupport.com.auwww.improvedliveability.com.auwww.fullyaccessible.com.auCONTACT:Please feel free to call us at 1300254397 to talk to one of our friendly staff, otherwise, just pop on over to our website to find out more info on www.ndispropertyaustralia.com.auDISCLAIMER:Information contained in this podcast is general in nature only. It does not take into account the objectives, financial situation, or needs of any particular person. You need to consider your financial situation and needs before making any decisions based on this information and should seek independent and professional advice for your personal circumstances.For any podcast related queries or suggestions, please contact our podcast manager via email info@ndis.propertywww.sdahousingpodcast.com.au

If you're looking for a workplace where your young but ambitious ad agency can grow, DeVono recommends this co-working space in Golden Square, Soho. DeVono City: London Address: 10 Bloomsbury Way, Website https://www.devono.com/ Phone +44-7889-607693 Email cl@devono.com

Join hosts Linda Scott and Sharilyn Fisher as they welcome special guest, Steven Smith, Author/Director/Producer, Homosexuality To Holiness, Part 2

Join hosts Linda Scott and Sharilyn Fisher as they welcome special guest, Steven Smith, Author/Director/Producer, Homosexuality To Holiness

Join hosts Linda Scott and Sharilyn Fisher as they welcome special guest, Terese Marie.

Join hosts Linda Scott and Sharilyn Fisher as they welcome special guest, Sharita Tucker.

Join hosts Linda Scott and Sharilyn Fisher as the welcome special guest, Pastor Carol Reed. You don't want to miss this one!

Join Hosts, Linda Scott and Sharilyn Fisher for a Special Edition of the Golden Square Podcast, "LS 1426 Unveiled."

Join hosts Linda Scott and Sharilyn Fisher as they welcome special guest, Brenda Simmons, President, SUGAR'BABEE 24 HR SAFE PLACE SERVICES

Join hosts Linda Scott and Sharilyn Fisher as they welcome special guest, Shahidah Alia, Founder of I.A.S. Image Consulting for Part Two of "Pretty For a Dark Skinned Girl."

Join hosts Linda Scott and Sharilyn Fisher as they welcome special guest, Shahidah Alia, Founder of I.A.S. Image Consulting for Part One of "Pretty For a Dark Skinned Girl."

Join hosts Linda Scott and Sharilyn Fisher as they welcome special guest, Teria M. Johnson, Co-Founder of Mother's Dialysis Care Inc.

Join hosts Linda Scott and Sharilyn Fisher as they welcome special guest, Rose B. Johnson, Colon Cancer Awareness

Hosts Linda Scott and Sharilyn Fisher welcome special guest, Koretta Brown, from Bridges To Empowerment.

Hosts Linda Scott and Sharilyn Fisher welcome special guests, Jason and Rhonda Turner, Marriage and Family Counselors, for a discussion on "What Makes a Successful Marriage."

Hosts Linda Scott and Sharilyn Fisher welcome special guest, Niecy Duffield-Dobbins, CEO/Founder of Breakfree Ministries and Productions!

Join hosts Linda Scott and Sharilyn Fisher as they welcome special guest LaSonia R. Latulas Pre-Planning Funeral Agent.

Join hosts Linda Scott and Sharilyn Fisher as they welcome special guest Dr. Glenice Glover, President & CEO of Bi-Wi "Because I'm Worth It" International.

Join hosts Linda Scott and Sharilyn Fisher as they welcome special guest, Charlene Bouie, CEO & Founder of Coffee Break with Charley.

Join Linda Scott and Sharilyn Fisher as they welcome special guest, Realtor, Author and Purpose Coach, Andre Notice.

Happy New Year! Join us for our first broadcast of 2023 with our special guest John Mitchell, Author, Entrepreneur, and Owner, of Phat Body Sports and Nutrition. Linda Scott and Sharilyn Fisher aka "Thelma and Louise" are back!

Join Linda Scott and Sharilyn Fisher for Episode 14 with special guest, Kim Roxie of Lamik Beauty.

Join Hosts, Linda Scott and Sharilyn Fisher as they welcome special guest, Dr. Verna Caddie.

Hosts Linda Scott and Sharilyn Fisher are back and we're still celebrating Black Men's Month, with three very special guests, Milton McCulloch, and Nolen Davis, and Ben White.

Join hosts Linda Scott and Sharilyn Fisher as we celebrate Black Men's Month, with special guest, NFL Legend Bobby Butler.

Join hosts, Linda Scott and Sharilyn Fisher as they discuss Fashion for Big/Tall Men, with special guest, Michael Moss, CEO of Big Man Culture.

Join hosts Linda Scott and Sharilyn Fisher for recaps and reviews of the season so far.

Join hosts Linda Scott and Sharilyn Fisher for this episode on Mental Health Awareness with special guest, Dr. Rhonda Sneed.

Join hosts Linda Scott and Sharilyn Fisher for this special episode on Breast Cancer Awareness, with special guest, Amber Dawn Rice, Wife, Mom, Advocate Bodybuilder, & Breast Cancer Survivor.

Co-Parenting can be challenging and stressful. We're here to give you more helpful do-s and don'ts of co-parenting with our special guests Regina Pierre and Mr. Ben Bryant. Tune in and take notes!

Co-Parenting can be challenging and lead to unhealthy behaviors. Join us for a discussion on co-parenting and get tips on how to be effective co-parents, with your hosts, Linda Scott and Sharilyn Fisher.

Child Support is not just a man's issue, it's a family issue. Join us for Episode 4 for the discussion on "Women Who Pay Child Support."

Join the hosts Linda Scott and Sharilyn Fisher for Episode 3 of the Golden Square Podcast. Tonight we're discussing Domestic Violence PART II, with special guests, Dr. Jennifer Gilbert, and Lisa Denae. Join the conversation and help us break the silence

Join the hosts Linda Scott and Sharilyn Fisher for Episode 2 of the Golden Square Podcast. Tonight we're discussing Domestic VIolence with special guests, Dr. Jennifer Gilbert, and Lisa Denae. Join the conversation and help us break the silence.

Welcome to The Golden Square Podcast, with hosts Linda Scott and Sharilyn Fisher. We're briding the gap between generations of black women. Please enjoy our first episode with special guests, Colin Thompson of Catv Productions, and Dozell Varner, Host of Dialogue with Dozie.

Our investigators leave the safety of 33 Golden Square, ready to face London's streets together. Jameson reveals a long-kept secret, Quincy looks danger in the eye, and Davie comforts a new friend.Music:Hooked (Addicted You Might Say) | Eleisha EagleFading Rays' Waltz | Kai EngelCountdown by Alexander NakaradaLink: https://filmmusic.io/song/4865-countdownLicense: https://filmmusic.io/standard-licenseMalicious by Kevin MacLeodLink: https://filmmusic.io/song/4014-maliciousLicense: https://filmmusic.io/standard-licenseMarch of the Mind by Kevin MacLeodLink: https://filmmusic.io/song/4020-march-of-the-mindLicense: https://filmmusic.io/standard-licensePlans in Motion by Kevin MacLeodLink: https://filmmusic.io/song/4225-plans-in-motionLicense: https://filmmusic.io/standard-licenseTenebrous Brothers Carnival - Intermission by Kevin MacLeodLink: https://filmmusic.io/song/4473-tenebrous-brothers-carnival---intermissionLicense: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license

A worried Jameson investigates the unexplained vanishing of Hudson and Brand, while the wild denizens of 33 Golden Square devolve into debauchery, joined by the debonair Quincy. Meanwhile, the enigmatic Davie uses the distraction to rob Golden Square's riches, but she and the members of the Afterlight Society will find more than they bargained for.Music:Hooked (Addicted You Might Say) | Eleisha EagleRunning Fanfare | Kevin McLeodOh! By Jingo! | All Star TrioFading Rays' Waltz | Kai EngelGreat Expectations | Kai EngelSnake Rag | King Oliver's Creole Jazz BandBowed Voices Master | John BartmanSonata No. 19 in G Minor, Op. 49 No. 1 - II. Rondo Allegro | Daniel VeeseySarasate, Spanish Dance | Arnold RoséAchaidh Cheide by Kevin MacLeodLink: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/3338-achaidh-cheideLicense: https://filmmusic.io/standard-license*edited

Golden Square is RISING's swirling art car park—three levels of art, performance, parades and rooftop bars. Smack bang in the middle of the longest continuous Chinatown in the West is a... LEARN MORE The post Golden Square – Rising appeared first on Sunday Arts Magazine.

The leading characters of Afterlight, Jameson Sly, Eloise "Davie" Davenport, and Quincy Bordeaux, step into the spotlight. How will these characters collide and will they unravel the secrets of Hudson and Brand at 33 Golden Square?

Davie, Quincy, and Jameson attend a hedonistic party at 33 Golden Square, the home of London's bohemians and many of their secrets.

Golden Square Freedom Park  Bridgetown Barbados Ⓒ 2021 ISBN 979-8-88525-922-4.mp3 PodcastOccupying the precincts of Bridgetown, Barbados is the historic Golden Square Freedom Park. On this cultural heritage historic two-acre park site are signifiers namely the Flags of Barbados and CARICOM are displayed together as a symbol of the state power, Builders of Barbados Wall, a Community Wall, and a 1937 Memorial Wall represent immovable and strong, and benches which were gifted to this island by Suriname to honour the special people and events in BarbadosWORKS CITEDGittens,William Anderson, Author, Cinematographer Dip.Com., Arts. B.A. Media Arts Specialists' License Cultural  Practitioner, Publisher,CEO,Editor in Chief of Devgro Media Arts Services Publishing®2015https://barbados.org/people/heroes.htm#.Ya8lJfHMKqkhttps://academic.oup.com/past/article/206/suppl_5/9/1453339https://cityseeker.com/barbados/674244-golden-squarehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clement_Paynehttps://gisbarbados.gov.bb/blog/golden-square-freedom-park-opens/Payne, Clement", in Keith A. P. Sandiford, A Black Studies Primer: Heroes and Heroines of the African Diaspora, Hansib Publications, 2008, p. 363. iMovie and Devgro Media Arts Services®2015FilmsA Devgro Media Arts Services®2015Films Production In Association with iMovieA William Anderson Gittens, Author, Cinematographer, Media Arts Specialist, License Cultural Practitioner,Podcaster , Publisher FilmPresentedISBN 979-8-88525-922-4 Podcast Golden Square Freedom Park © 2021 DirectedEdited ProducedStill/VideographerWritten ByWilliam Anderson Gittens of Devgro Media Arts Services®2015Executive ProducerWilliam Anderson GittensSupport the show (http://www.buzzsprout.com/429292)

In the midst of global apocalyptic collapse, the so-called solutions on offer from the imperial core are miles away from even marginal forms of dignity. The disdainful refusal to muster anything more than symbolic misdirects buried under bureaucratic mazes of means testing illuminate how deeply incapable the neoliberal boot-strap ideology is of addressing basic human needs. An anxious capitalist class and its corrupt, craven supplicants are waging an all-out war against any measure of “socialist” “entitlements” that might help build the social infrastructure desperately needed in this age of climate chaos and psychic despair. To acknowledge that everyone deserves The Golden Square—the unconditional and universal provisions of Food, Shelter, Healthcare, and Education—should be as common sense as sunshine. As Peter Kropotkin detailed in The Conquest of Bread at the end of the nineteenth century, if society was organized around first meeting human needs, we could easily be living in a world of abundance and leisure for all, all while working much less. But instead of cooperatively creating a rational and egalitarian world of post-scarcity, the cult of propertarians and their armies of indoctrinated worshipers & wage-slaves have foisted upon us polluted cities and poisoned water, expecting us to be grateful for fast fashion and fast food, the complimentary side-dishes of batshit construction and bullshit jobs. What we need, instead, are walkable cities, shorter work weeks, balanced job complexes, and a post-scarcity economy based on care and freedom. Imagining such a future involves asking a series of questions that must be fully explored . . . How would our lives be different? How would work get done, and who would do it?  Would meeting The Golden Square require a focus toward centralization or decentralization? In this second of a three-part series envisioning The World of The Golden Square, Jesse and Matt investigate the experiences and methods of a world re-made to meet human needs in a rightful relationship with the planet. We live in capitalism – a patriarchal social order forever insisting that there is no alternative –  a system that has been violently curtailing ideal innovation for more than two centuries, just as feudalism and the divine right of kings did for so many centuries prior. The heartless handmaidens of this system are tyrannical mega-corporations living as “para-states,” floating above the world's so-called democracies, leeching every available drop of use-value from the earth and its inhabitants in a callous competition for monopolies of power & profit. These corporate parasites will continue to destroy everything in sight as long as the deeply irrational market-logic myths about “Supply & Demand” and “The Rationality Economic Man” are the organizing basis of our shared reality. This Age of Techno-feudalism – to borrow Yanis Varoufakis' neologism – is a bullshit system that makes batshit products, based on horseshit ideas. The urgent existential responsibility that we now face – to heal our scars and secure a livable future – will require nothing less than birthing a real global utopia as quickly as humanity can muster – an open-source world designed around The Golden Square.   Comprehensive Show Notes Can Be Found at thefutureisamixtape.com   Feel Free to Contact Jesse & Matt on the Following Spaces & Places: thefutureisamixtape@gmail.com Facebook Twitter Instagram

We stand at the precipice of apocalypse – together bound by “The Legacy of Domination” to a dystopian world in the midst of full-melt collapse. The death-drive of empire can no longer hide behind a facade of limited bourgeois comforts, as the parade of twenty-first century catastrophes lays bare the macabre realities of a social order designed for maximum hierarchy. But another legacy of human history travels with us as a persistent revolutionary beacon – “The Legacy of Freedom.” While the pharaohs of our neoliberal capitalist hellscape continue to insist that there is no alternative – that the ultimate achievement of human potential is a do-or-die Battle Royale waged in the patriarchal pyramid scheme they call the market, the wise among us have always known that egalitarian, non-market social relations – “baseline communism” as David Greaber called it – are what makes society possible in the first place. To institutionalize freedom, we must first guarantee the right to live by provisioning an irreducible minimum to all. And though the nations of the world have long acknowledged that “everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family, including food, clothing, housing and medical care and necessary social services” as stated in Article 25 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948), all of these same nations have absurdly failed to make this a binding reality. Because to truly meet these minimum standards of human dignity, it would require the full decommodification of all of these basic needs. Alas, a deeply rooted ideology of scarcity continues to hold us back, like a dark ghost squatting on the future. To get to the radical root and finally unlock the post-scarcity future that is our common inheritance, we must re-make the world with The Golden Square as our new common sense. But what would it mean to organize the world based on the universal, unconditional, and life-long provisions of free Food, Shelter, Healthcare and Education to every person on the planet? For this half-century mark of the podcast, Jesse & Matt venture beyond the urgent and undeniably rational demands to decommodify our basic human rights, and begin to imagine what it might actually feel like to live in The World of The Golden Square. It's one thing to recognize the clarity of this Idea-Shape's moral demands, but it's perhaps more tantalizing and propulsively utopian to actually envision the profound implications of living in a world designed to meet those demands. With this episode – the first of a three-part series  – our exploration begins by tracing the definitions and foundations of a world built to ensure freedom from want and the right to well-being for all. Building another world requires smashing the denials from those above us and who haunt the insides of us. The World of The Golden Square is indeed possible – a world without property, without paywalls, and without physical borders separating humans from humans, flowers from flowers, water from land. Join us on this journey. Comprehensive Show Notes Can Be Found at thefutureisamixtape.com Feel Free to Contact Jesse & Matt on the Following Spaces & Places: thefutureisamixtape@gmail.com Facebook Twitter Instagram

Inhabitants of other worlds looking down on our earth for the first time may very likely deduce that this planet is dominated by a civilization of cars, and we humans are just puddles of mud hidden inside. We live in a world turned upside-down—a utopia for automobiles, where instead of being communities built for freedom & flourishing, our cities are glittering monuments to petroleum, patriarchy, and profit. But buried under the grotesque mélange of cul-de-sacs, commodities, and mind-numbing commutes that define our suburban dystopias, rest designs for liberation hiding in plain sight. Where social reproduction is not subordinated to the production of profit. Where food, shelter, healthcare, and education are all decommodified. And where the unconditional and universal provision of these human rights is the non-negotiable foundation for institutionalizing freedom and unleashing human potential. In this episode, Matt & Jesse embark on a dialectical synthesis of ideas, weaving together the liberatory notions of a Feminism for The 99%, The Right to The City, and Free Housing For All into a conception of The City of The Golden Square—by imagining every neighborhood as a university. This inventive world-building exercise illuminates a mixtape for the future, conjoining the joyful & egalitarian features of neighborhoods with the noble & emancipatory potentialities of universities. Paradoxically, despite histories of racist, colonial, and capitalist violence, along with ongoing plunder by the corporate neoliberal state, both neighborhoods and universities still carry seeds of emancipation and together offer a coherent set of social and spatial paradigms that prefigure the shape of a better tomorrow. Thinking about neighborhoods becoming indistinguishable from universities is a way to envision what might emerge in our cities if we can erode capitalism, abolish the cost of living, and build a just transition to a green future of radical egalitarianism—where real democracy might finally blossom. Universities should be as common as neighborhoods, and every neighborhood should shimmer with the wholeness that only universities can offer. Every Neighborhood a University is a vision rooted in Social Ecology, grounded in Anarchism, born of Communalism, aimed at Library Socialism, and based on a new social contract: The Golden Square. If the borders between neighborhood and university can dissolve, making them one and the same, humanity might open up a sociological singularity, unleashing the rainbow light of our caged fecundity into the post-scarcity future we all deserve. Join us in this conversation to explore how the architecture of a solarpunk utopia can arise from the ashes of the here and now.   Comprehensive Show Notes Can Be Found at thefutureisamixtape.com Feel Free to Contact Jesse & Matt on the Following Spaces & Places: thefutureisamixtape@gmail.com Facebook Twitter Instagram

The wealthy have enjoyed generations of post-scarcity, living as they do in self-isolated bubbles of private hoarding. But what about the rest of us? The billions of us who can't afford the last three months of unpaid rent, or have to ration life-saving medications, who skip meals in order to afford college textbooks, or who are washed away in the floods of climate catastrophes? Our shared reality in this global society is one of planned scarcity imposed from above: the shimmering Poison Pyramid of a callous status-quo swarming like a rapacious daggered virus into each blood-chamber of our secret beating hearts. While 21st century Pharaohs ride dickships through the stratosphere for suborbital self-love, the rest of humanity is kept from the secret that the ruling class has always known: we could always-already live in a world of post-scarcity for all, if only our politics unveiled it; that is to say: if common sense dictated it. This much is certain: if our institutions were designed to expand, not constrict freedom, fulfilling the universal right to free housing could quickly become a simple everyday reality. As such, it's time to remake the world according to a new social contract that is as easy, breezy and taken-for-granted as breathing the air that floats around us. To do that, we need an ecology of anticapitalist tactics that will uncover the urgency and achievability of The Golden Square. To accomplish this, Jesse and Matt attempt – in this episode – to trace some of the main avenues in the long, winding journey toward the full decommodification of housing as a guaranteed human right. In doing so, they'll navigate across three different waterways: access, affordability, and finally, the ocean of our pacific dreams: full decommodification. They will make the direct case that we can truly create freely available, zero-carbon, safe, comfortable housing for all – and guarantee it to every person on the planet from cradle to grave. But we mustn't think of this demand as merely some far-fetched goal; but rather, we should think of this aim as a thrilling organizing tool leading us toward The Utopian Sphere. Calling out like a siren from beyond the cruel cul-de-sacs of rents, mortgages, and the cost of living, the rainbow light of decommodification beckons to us – toward the truly liberated and fecund future we so rightly deserve.    Comprehensive Show Notes Can Be Found at thefutureisamixtape.com Feel Free to Contact Jesse & Matt on the Following Spaces & Places: thefutureisamixtape@gmail.com Facebook Twitter Instagram

One of the many outrageous and surreal moral paradoxes of life in the imperial core  was made disturbingly obvious early on during the COVID crisis in a shuttered Las Vegas—then void of tourists—when its city officials moved unhoused residents into an empty outdoor parking lot. In a woesome illustration of capitalism's hallmark scarcity in the midst of plenty, looming directly above the forgotten were the city's glitzy-ritzy hotels with thousands of empty, unused rooms stacked skyward—taunting the unsheltered who were made to sleep below, partitioned by lines of chalked concrete. Let's call it what it was: an open-air prison. Fast forward a year later, with vaccines aplenty, millions of additional Americans are now at risk of joining the ranks of the unsheltered thanks to the soft-fascism of the Biden administration and its refusal to take direct action to prevent a looming eviction crisis. These days, few can afford to join the American-dream-home-ownership-cult, as prices have soared past their breaking points all across the nation, with California exemplifying the surge, where homes are now selling for $50-70,000 above their listing prices. And even for the renters who aren't behind on their monthly debt payments to land-barons, they are confronting increased housing precarity as well, with rents skyrocketing to ever outrageous levels. In a world where housing—a basic necessity that everyone needs—has become a speculative hyper-commodity driving unfathomable levels of wealth inequality in the midst of apocalyptic climate chaos, to say that there is a “housing crisis” is a tragic understatement. Our contemporary and abject social contract can be summed up as: “PAY RENT OR DIE.” So without pause or confusion, we must unapologetically recognize that housing is both a human right and a public good that must be provided unconditionally to every person on the planet. Accordingly, there should be no such thing as a “housing market”—a gross absurdity that does little more than guarantee that housing's exchange value will always trump its use value. Let us be clear: Housing is a human right. Therefore, rent is a human rights abuse and landlords are human rights violators, full stop. Not surprisingly, as the core feature of the second most important node along The Golden Square, free housing for all needs to be acknowledged as a non-negotiable, bare minimum provision to be expected from any decent society. In this episode, Jesse & Matt grapple with the unconscionable injustices of for-profit housing, seeking out those much too neglected vectors of emancipatory struggle where housing decommodification can begin, brick-by-brick, archway-to-doorway.   Comprehensive Show Notes Can Be Found at thefutureisamixtape.com Feel Free to Contact Jesse & Matt on the Following Spaces & Places: thefutureisamixtape@gmail.com Facebook Twitter Instagram

Phil Hetherington joins the boys for the latest installment of First Drop.  One of the best bats to come out of Bendigo, Phil takes us through his time in premier cricket with clubs, South Melbourne and Carlton. Phil also touches on his time with Bendigo club, Golden Square and some memorable moments in the change rooms with some big name test cricketers. 

In the second part of our conversation and collaboration with the Coffee with Comrades podcast, we begin seeking out works of literature, cinema, and scholarship that might illuminate Anti-Anti-Utopian blueprints for building new worlds. As Matt remarks, it's virtually impossible to come up with a list of films that would be called utopian, but Pearson argues that you could – in fact – come up with a robust list of fiction and non-fiction texts that spell out the shape of this new genre of hope-making. A developmental syllabus of Anti-Anti-Utopian study may start with Ursula K. Le Guin's iconic and epic “ambiguous utopia,” The Dispossessed (1974), and include Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars Trilogy of novels (1992-96), as well as  nonfiction books like Erik Olin Wright's Envisioning Real Utopias (2010), Alex Williams & Nick Srnicek's Inventing the Future: Postcapitalism and a World Without Work (2015), and A Planet to Win: Why We Need a Green New Deal by Kate Aronoff, Alyssa Battistoni, Daniel Aldana Cohen, and Thea Riofrancos (2019). These visions of still imperfect, but radically more just & egalitarian worlds teach us that striving toward the utopian horizon is neither naive nor impractical, but instead all too necessary and prudent, especially now. As such, The Golden Square affirms that the decommodification of life and democratization of society are not just revolutionary goals, but in fact, the revolutionary project itself. Beyond the ceaseless academic obsessions with diagramming the corpse of our dystopian hellscape, we must chart a path outside our pyramid-shaped cages by realizing the unconditional rights to food, shelter, healthcare, and education for every person on earth – a readymade threshold separating us from the Utopian Sphere. Moving outward, Pearson, Jesse and Matt talk about the key planks that might make up the political philosophy of Anti-Anti-Utopia and how charting an emancipatory path forward requires an intersectional anti-capitalist compass magnetized to the many symbiotic, multilectical transformations necessary to abolish empire. As Matt has been fond of saying of late: “Be like an anarchist,” first and foremost. Comprehensive Show Notes Can Be Found at thefutureisamixtape.com Feel Free to Contact Jesse & Matt on the Following Spaces & Places: thefutureisamixtape@gmail.com Facebook Twitter Instagram Support Coffee with Comrades on Patreon, follow them on Twitter and Instagram, and visit their website.

How might feminism be reinvigorated to fully reverse our age of climate chaos and techno-feudalism? Will the next feminist wave be revolutionary enough to address the totality of capitalist cis-heteropatriarchal racism? Sitting on the knife's edge between despair and hope, humanity picks up a silhouette manuscript of its own death, but which, if flipped over, reveals pages that illuminate a way back to the womb of a better future-possible. If we are going to build a just world for all of us, it must start from a politics that addresses the deep complexity of our collective wounds. So in this second episode in a trilogy on 21st Century Feminisms, Jesse & Matt discuss Zillah Eisenstein's short book Abolitionist Socialist Feminism: Radicalizing the Next Revolution (2019). This idiosyncratic manifesto (of sorts) swings in synchronicity with the ethos of this podcast as a brief polemic frustrated with the fucked nature of a besotted world of never-ending injustice, while nonetheless stubbornly insisting on radical, anticapitalist and intersectional solutions. As such, Zillah's voice swims very much in the form and feeling of conversational exchanges—a dialog with her past self and fellow feminists—yearning, groping and clutching onto new ways of thinking that drift into view. The text weaves in and out of many different dimensions at a rapid pace—with a frenetic, anxious energy and a morally righteous indignation—a splicing of many disparate references, experiences, and perspectives into a complex tapestry of exasperated fury. And rightly so. A long, long time ago, we should have already won The Golden Square, and be fluttering into the light of The Utopian Sphere; but alas, here we are instead: still trying to wrest ourselves from this locked, dismal future and leap into a spinning, dazzling and enchanting one. What we must continue to seek out—in the ongoing struggle for human liberation—is a politics that can confront the deep entanglements of compounded hierarchies limiting our collective potential. In order to claim the dignity we all deserve and to unleash the beauty of a shared utopian promise, our unfolding future demands the most radical feminism yet: to dismantle and shatter inequality itself and replace it with boundless love.   Comprehensive Show Notes Can Be Found at thefutureisamixtape.com Feel Free to Contact Jesse & Matt on the Following Spaces & Places: thefutureisamixtape@gmail.com Facebook Twitter Instagram

What would it mean if our society prioritized social reproduction above production for profit? Our racist, cis-heteropatriarchal, capitalist dystopia is a world turned upside-down—where the essential work that creates & sustains life is assigned to women and subordinated to the making of profit. Instead of aiming to undue this perversion, mainstream feminism of the past decade has prioritized a “Lean In” strategy, advocating “equal opportunity domination” as the ultimate horizon of gender equality. According to this liberal-feminist doctrine, what the world needs is not the abolition of social hierarchy, but simply a more diverse representation to maintain seats of power that already enshrine and expand inequality. Thankfully, this bankrupt approach has been counter-punched by a new wave of feminist strikes emerging in recent years, including ones in Spain, Poland and the #RedForEd strikes in the U.S. that swept across the country in the months after Trump's election. In the powerful and accessible book Feminism for the 99%: A Manifesto, Cinzia Arruzza, Tithi Bhattacharya, and Nancy Fraser articulate an urgent anti-capitalist, anti-racist, anti-imperialist, and eco-socialist vision of a feminism informed by the International Women's Strike Movement. So in this episode, Matt & Jesse celebrate this new, more radical, more intersectional feminist vision for the 21st century—by exploring this indispensable text that is a brief, focused clarification of key issues in our shared emancipatory struggle. While it may seem like an outdated term, “the personal is the political”—a key rallying cry of 60's Student Movements and Second-Wave Feminists—is a zeitgeist phrase that is ever worthy of being rescued in our Age of Climate Despair. The essential truth of this maxim is increasingly evidenced in women's lives, and especially for single mothers and women of color who represent the majority of Americans who are laboring for starvation wages, risking their lives during a global pandemic to keep the world working for everyone else that doesn't look like them. And though the voices and perspectives of women are so often silenced, shunted and brayed by Boyland Domination, we must recognize that the path towards justice and human liberation requires a robust feminist analysis. Because, on the Periodic Table of Injustice, the subjugation of women is the most common element found in the world. Misogyny is everywhere and it damages all of our lives, devaluing and dehumanizg women, trans, and non-binary folks, while unjustly exalting masculinity in a violently enforced tyranny of suffocating gender constructs. We live in a world designed by, and for, the interests of patriarchy, one of the very oldest forms of social hierarchy—an ancient institutional structure whose abolition must first start with the building of The Golden Square. So indeed, this rousing document, Feminism for the 99%: A Manifesto, offers a forthright proclamation of values, and in so doing, properly identifies all those paper clips stuck to that sick magnet called capitalism. One-by-one, fingers to palm, the authors help us pry off those paper clips, so we can put them back in the bowl of new beginnings.   Comprehensive Show Notes Can Be Found at thefutureisamixtape.com Feel Free to Contact Jesse & Matt on the Following Spaces & Places: thefutureisamixtape@gmail.com Facebook Twitter Instagram

What would it mean to gain a sense of the world if it was nothing more than a series of geometric patterns? What if there were a few simple shapes that could describe the complex dynamics of our byzantine world and provide solutions to intractable global problems? Would this instantly recognizable geometry unlock long-obscured fundamental truths? Gilded upon the artwork accompanying these humble conversations between comrades sit three defining shapes: a triangle, a square, and a circle. So for this episode, Jesse & Matt will map out the contours of these three fundamental Idea-Shapes: The Poison Pyramid, The Golden Square and The Utopian Sphere. This simple arrangement of basic shapes illuminates an emancipatory trajectory: a systemic diagnosis of our dystopian world; a necessary and practical new social contract that extends dignity and freedom to all; and finally, visions of our utopian potential and the flourishing, post-scarcity future we all deserve. This triptych of Idea-Shapes outlines a comprehensive “No-Bullshit Theory” about the double-down shitty myths that ceaselessly gaslight us, the shared abundance that we must claim in the here-and-now, and ultimately, how the joyful promise of our utopian horizon should be a central cause for collective motivation. These radical essentializations of the world offer a framework for dealing with the chaos of the social order, and clarify how we can erode the compounding systems of hierarchy that poison everything with unending violence, despair, and disorder. As a condensed syllabus for this “Grad School for Radicals,” these three shapes unlock a critical deep-systems curriculum that provides transformational engagement without the typically mystifying pretense of intellectual knowledge-hoarding. And so these conversations seek to give unmistakable clarity in contrast to the shouting hordes of bad-faith actors who needlessly complicate things–both for their own fame-seeking vanity and to further the ruling-class drive to keep the masses from winning a deep democracy. So if we wish to reverse the apocalypse, we must answer these three deceptively simple questions: Where are we? Where are we going? And what should we be aiming for? The ruling elite never hesitate to assault our modest aims for meaningful lives with their garish distractions of consumer-glitter, privatized-pleasure, and the ritualized-worship of their god-awful ideas. Despite eons of bad myths blocking our potential, this certainty remains: we all live in a delicate interdependence upon this beautiful spaceship called Earth. There is no Planet B. It will take everyone one of us—not just the lone, logical Spock—to repair our ship's precious and damaged Warp Drive. Once fixed by our many hands, all of the stars, both seen and unseen, will beckon to us with open smiles.   Comprehensive Show Notes Can Be Found at thefutureisamixtape.com Feel Free to Contact Jesse & Matt on the Following Spaces & Places: thefutureisamixtape@gmail.com Facebook Twitter Instagram

In this, the second part of our double-album release, we return to our familiar conversational format to discuss the ideas and diagnoses put forth in CrimthInc's poetic manifesto, To Change Everything. The 48-page pamphlet documents a dizzying array of morbid disorders from the same sick nation-states that give you endless awful B-sides, such as: “Disney's Manifest Destiny,” “Healthcare, Sometimes,” “Bootstraps Best for You,” “Lock'em & Cock'em,” “Student Debt Meets Mr. Ramen,” and finally, “Do the COVID-Collapse.” Many of the threatening obstacles and dangerous injustices diagrammed in CrimethInc's proclamation adhere, like super-glue, to the plastic surface of the U.S. petroleum project. And so, the collective's polemic is always aware that the solutions required must be bigger than one state, one nation or one continent to contemplate, fathom or undertake. The manifesto stirs with telling details and insightful observations about what we know and what we wish to ignore in this, our shared reality that spins like a deranged compass. And while To Change Everything functions as a good primer to anarchist ethics and its attendant traditions, it's worth noting how little it offers in the way of clear, practical, and focused solutions—like The Golden Square—or what Jesse & Matt like to call the “No-Bullshit Blueprint for Socialism” explored in Episode #031. The promise of anarchism is not some grand plan, or some self-righteous political dogma that will magically release us from capitalism's death-grip, but its values demand us to make a clear paradigm shift away from the dizzying maze of domination and violence that perpetually blocks humanity from having any nice things. Anarchism points towards a deep-system critique and an egalitarian ethics of rights and responsibilities that we so desperately need in our institutions and social relations. By flipping the script on a world built on a logic of forced scarcity and do-or-die competition, we can instead design a world of mutual cooperation and shared abundance. As CrimethInc writes, “Every order is founded on a crime against the preceding order—the crime that dissolved it.” But we can't commit that righteous crime with a fetishization of poetic ambiguities; we must work in solidarity to build dual power—abolishing institutions of state violence while we build new institutions of care & freedom at every level. Above all else, if we are going to survive together on this fragile planet, we must decommodify life and democratize society. And to do it now, we must start by changing everything.  Comprehensive Show Notes Can Be Found at thefutureisamixtape.com Feel Free to Contact Jesse & Matt on the Following Spaces & Places: thefutureisamixtape@gmail.com Facebook Twitter Instagram

If aliens could beam to our shores with recording devices, a savage irony would immediately and immaculately light up their antennas: not only does our global society fail to provide The Golden Square to every person on Earth, humans are increasingly forced deeper and deeper into debt for those fundamental rights to Food, Shelter, Healthcare, and Education. The debt-staircase has become grossly absurd and toxically tragic—a ruinous prank laid upon us at an ever-accelerating rate since the dawn of neoliberalism. From cradle to grave, we're trapped on a noxious treadmill of Debt Achievement Goals: School Lunch Debt, College Debt, Credit Card Debt, Auto Loan Debt, Housing Debt, Medical Debt, and more. And even after death, debt collectors hound our family members and moralize about unpaid balances. As David Graeber once said, “As it turns out, we don't ‘all' have to pay our debts. Only some of us do.” And who is that “some of us,” exactly? Well, certainly not the 1%; rather only the rest of us—the great unwashed 99%—as we resign to rumination and self-blame for not being entrepreneurial enough. As capitalism forces us to pay for our own existence (while it indiscriminately tears through the Earth's remaining ecologies), we must seriously question the moral plea to “pay all debts.” And as it turns out, there is another path that leads us away from Terminal Dystopia Syndrome (TDS). Forged from relationships built during the prefigurative struggles of Occupy Wall Street —The Debt Collective has published an urgent and instructive new manifesto tackling the emergency of now: Can't Pay, Won't Pay: The Case for Economic Disobedience and Debt Abolition. In this episode, Matt & Jesse consider the emancipatory ideas of this important book, the necessary demand to abolish debt, and how we might reclaim the  “intellectual luxuries” we all deserve. The Debt Collective offer a persuasive argument for how and why Debtors Unions have dynamic potential to become the most liberatory union movement in history, providing the leverage needed to redress hierarchies of racial capitalism and colonial plunder by inaugurating a new era of investment in “Reparative Public Goods.” Amidst the powerful and dark-tidal pull of the COVID-19 pandemic, Can't Pay, Won't Pay provides a capstone to a trilogy on debt: David Graeber's Debt: The First 5,000 Years (an anthropological reckoning); Sam Esmail's Mr. Robot (a popular awakening), and finally, this book by the Debt Collective—a battle plan plan for how we unfuck the world that capitalism has smothered and smeared into shit. A 21st Century Debt Jubilee must be wrought by all of us, collectively.   Comprehensive Show Notes Can Be Found at thefutureisamixtape.com Feel Free to Contact Jesse & Matt on the Following Spaces & Places: thefutureisamixtape@gmail.com Facebook Twitter Instagram

For this special episode, Matt & Jesse are joined by Shawn Vulliez from the SRSLY WRONG Podcast for a very important discussion about how the concept of Library Socialism might dovetail with the idea-shape of The Golden Square. As Shawn laments, the inexorable crisis of capitalism is that it turns us into “Tool-Handed Monsters who can't hug our own children.” But published in 1971, Murray Bookchin's Post-Scarcity Anarchism provided some initial inklings of a world without work or want—where the even-flow of Social Ecology, Libertarian Municipalism, and an abundance of material resources would allow us to finally hug our children, our shared future. Yet, given the climate chaos of the here and now, it's hard to imagine how we might get there as we face the fast-Fascist collapse of the biosphere. Insects, animals and the Earth's ecosystems die-off while capitalism forces us into collectively stuffing more Big Macs into our mouths. How might we meet the human rights to food, shelter, healthcare and education, and in so doing, create a new horizon for physical objects, where we could live in an ever-revolving circularity of consumer abundance? Beyond the bleak choice between denial of reality or submitting to involuntary human extinction, is there a third avenue left unlisted by popular imagination, one that doesn't require a magic marker to see or decrypt? Thankfully, there is a clear path toward an Ecology of Freedom, where we say goodbye to the continued maintenance of hierarchy and make way for its utter annihilation and dissolution, replacing it with a shared prosperity. As such, we must Decommodify the means to a dignified life, and Democratize every area of society. This dual principle is the only game in town, and its consecrated demands will lead us toward a vibrant and fecund future. These principles need foundations, though, which is why Library Socialism and The Golden Square can mutually embrace as complementary concepts: The Golden Square as the new social contract for society, and Library Socialism as the means for organizing our world. This conversation between comrades traces the beginnings of a mutual vision to address our ecological & social crises with practical solutions and an imminently achievable purpose. Humanity has an infinite amount of untapped potential that these outlined concepts toward a dignified global society aim to unleash. We should break from the Baby Yoda Nostalgia Blankets © of the possible—that keep us swaddled in narrow dreams and demands—and chart a course toward The Utopian Sphere. To paraphrase the now-radicalized Mandalorian (upon hearing us): “The Golden Square is the Objective. Library Socialism is the Way.”   Comprehensive Show Notes Can Be Found at thefutureisamixtape.com Feel Free to Contact Jesse & Matt on the Following Spaces & Places: thefutureisamixtape@gmail.com Facebook Twitter Instagram

In terms of audience reception, art can be a source of ridicule and scandal in mainstream society: as seen in Marcel Duchamp's notorious Fountain – a readymade sculpture that's a porcelain urinal flipped upside down and signed “R. Mutt”; but just as well, art can also create terrifying horror with a political charge (Edward Kienholz's Five Car Stud), spectral presence and spiritual depth (Louise Bourgeois's Spiders series) or art can become a psychedelic wonderland for the masses: as seen in Yayoi Kusama's Infinity Mirrored Room – a dazzling and diaphanous fractal maze of half-silvered mirrors that make one feel endless and glowing. But when it comes to how we feel and breathe about art's raison d'être: What's art's purpose for existing? Who gets to make art? Who gets to experience art? Sadly and grotesquely, just the rich. In this capitalist hellscape of commodified depravity and celebrity-driven attention hoarding, all measures of real freedom, including the ability to choose a life in the arts, are reserved only for the rich & famous. No matter who you are or where you were born, there is an alternative version of you behind every dollar of your parents; the money your family has or doesn't have, shapes the trajectory of your life and determines your available options. As such, this tragic lottery is ultimately a game best tossed into history's garbage bin. Our co-hosts will reflect on lifetimes of dashed dreams, yearning for freedom and imagining what art might be like in a socialist future – sketching visions of a New Renaissance waiting just behind the doors concealing humanity's suppressed imagination. Once achieving The Golden Square, where dignified lives no longer worry about food, shelter, healthcare and education, art is inevitably what comes next. We don't need Willy Wonka's Golden Ticket to 15 seconds of Ocean Spray © TikTok fame, which is the newer, crueler, sadder reality of the American Dream. The Golden Square is how we get freedom for everyone, not just a few lucky lottery winners in this vicious, boring dystopia. Building real Socialism will unleash a gazillion blooming flowers of human creativity – singing out in a joyous weave toward The Utopian Sphere. New art will ask new questions, make new demands, and push us toward the unknown horizons of belonging, fulfillment, and happiness never-before realized in human history. Comprehensive Show Notes Can Be Found at thefutureisamixtape.com Feel Free to Contact Jesse & Matt on the Following Spaces & Places: thefutureisamixtape@gmail.com Facebook Twitter Instagram

Golden Square Pool Inc. is a group of 90 locals of all ages who successfully saved their 102-year-old swimming pool and turned it into a community hub. Since being saved in 2012, volunteers have transformed a once tired, under-used facility, into an inclusive, vibrant and empowering hub for Golden Square and Bendigo residents. Their goal is to build a happy and healthy community, and have welcomed over 105,000 patrons through the gate in just eight years. In saving the pool, they wanted to create more than just a place to swim. So, they have introduced innovative programs like accessible health and wellbeing classes and programs for all ages, live music events, a Community Garden, and a Junior Volunteer Team mentoring program. One initiative they also host is the SwimSafe Bendigo program where free swimming lessons are given to anyone who hasn't been able to access lessons before, especially for local refugees, migrants and multicultural adults. An update since last October's awards: In July 2020 the pool again faced closure, however locals campaigned tirelessly by writing to councillors and media, placing blue ribbons on fences across the suburb, and holding a strong social media campaign. This was successful, and volunteers gained ongoing long-term certainty of operation. Volunteers are incredibly proud to have reached this milestone they have been working hard to achieve for eight years, and are now busy applying for funding and designing new programs for the future. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

During most summers in the U.S., one can expect soundtracked montages of pure Americana: music festivals, camping trips, BBQs, an onslaught of smash'em'up Marvel movies, beach parties, and 4th of July fireworks. But this summer, the world over, regardless of nation-state hallucinations and the petty borders carved by ancient violence, Mother Earth coughs up plagues, spits out wildfires, and vomits forth hurricanes. It's been a nonstop clusterfuck of catastrophes. Doomscrolling through our social media feeds, paralyzed by anxiety, we see how millions face unemployment, healthcare loss, and eviction. The entire West Coast of North America is now threatened by the largest conflagration in modern history. We live in a time of great calamities. But those calamities have an origin story that must be identified, criticized, and undone in order to build a world of The Golden Square. The origin of these calamities lies in the toxic designs that Jesse & Matt collectively call The Poison Pyramid, a rotten triptych composed of hierarchy-producing machines: 1) Religion; 2) Capitalism; and finally, 3) Celebrity. We are living in yet another summer of this Poison Pyramid—best illustrated in a stunt orchestrated by amerikkka's greatest huckster: Donald J. Trump, a raggedy pastiche of a man who trolled his way to the presidency. On June 1st, this flabby but unflagging con-artist directed police to deploy tear gas and violent tactics of domination to cleave through the George Floyd protests along Lafayette Square, so that he could stage a photo-op in front of St. John's Church. Waving a bible haphazardly in the air, Trump became the pure apotheosis of The Poison Pyramid run amok—the toxic fumes of religion, capitalism and celebrity enmeshed in an expensive, violent, & vacuous nonevent. A fundamental matrix of domination, The Poison Pyramid circumscribes a comprehensive series of hierarchies within hierarchies—a nesting doll hiding other cold cruelties. To design a world of dignity, this gross idea-shape must be dismantled from its insides, and the sick myths of this matrix must be discarded. We must follow the abolitionist arc of emancipatory struggle to dismantle these roadblocks to human flourishing. Only socialism will do   Comprehensive Show Notes Can Be Found at thefutureisamixtape.com Feel Free to Contact Jesse & Matt on the Following Spaces & Places: thefutureisamixtape@gmail.com Facebook Twitter Instagram

What would Socialism look like? All too often, when the Left tries to define “socialism,” they stumble into the weeds with seven pairs of trousers tied to their ankles as they hop helplessly with socks stuffed in their mouths, attempting to hit a golf ball with their neighbor's dildo—all done in order to get that hole-in-one, even though they had already swung three times, which had lead to them to the weeds in the first place. Sounds daft & confusing? It doesn't have to be. For this episode, Jesse & Matt talk about what socialism is, what it should be, and how we might best achieve this vaunted fantasia, making it so fully felt that it sounds like your loved one's heartbeat. Socialism should be straight-forward, obvious, and undeniable. Moving toward the full decommodification of The Golden Square – the universal and unconditional rights to Food, Shelter, Healthcare and Education – is a poetic starting point. Clearly, capitalism isn't working and its core myths are failing to persuade much of anyone anymore, especially the young. Capitalist mythology wants you to believe that we live in an unrivaled utopia of boundless consumer plenty; but what it won't tell you is that capitalism is a creepy, gyrating homogenization machine that ruins the beautiful, natural diversities of Earth and humanity in a drab, boring, tedious, and repetitive circle-jerk of dangerous rituals that lead to bio-collapse. It's over-run with all kinds of sick and sweaty M&Ms: Militarized, Monopolized, Market-Worshiping Malls, Mini-Marts, Megaplexes, McMansions, and Miles & Miles of Milquetoast Suburbs, Stacked with Super-Sized SUVs. Now more than ever, it is clear that we must cancel this dick-in-the-box ideology. At this moment, we must choose between socialism or more of neoliberalism's DeathCult barbarism. The former leads to utopia, while the latter leads to certain oblivion. The choice should be so dumbfoundingly obvious that it's akin to dropping your backpack to catch a falling baby from a window above. The Golden Square offers a No-Bullshit Blueprint for a socialist tomorrow that we can begin building today. It is a clear path to a world that is inclusive, accessible, sustainable, vibrant, colorful, diverse, dynamic, enriching, expansive, exciting, innovative, joyful, fun, restful, and yes: queer as fuck. It's the launchpad to a flourishing, utopian future. Let's right the wrongs and start building socialism now.   Comprehensive Show Notes Can Be Found at thefutureisamixtape.com Feel Free to Contact Jesse & Matt on the Following Spaces & Places: thefutureisamixtape@gmail.com Facebook Twitter Instagram

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In the most famous scene from the legendary film, Network (1976), populist news anchor, Howard Beale, creates a viral sensation before the internet became a thing: he tells his viewers, “I'm as mad as hell and I'm not gonna take this anymore!” And thousands of people across the country yell from their windows and rooftops repeating the mantra, “I'm as mad as hell and I'm not gonna take this anymore!” More than 40 years on, in our neoliberal wasteland, we have every right to be mad as hell as we huddle in our unpaid Covid-abodes with no more Bernie Bucks or stimulus, while microbes attack us relentlessly. With the Siberian forests on fire, the Great Barrier Reef deforming into black bones & ash and the oceans gasping for oxygen while record temperatures make Death Valley feel like Venus, we must become mad – with a rage that runs on love for what's been lost and for what we might still win. This week, Jesse & Matt celebrate the multi-authored manifesto, A Planet to Win: Why We Need a Green New Deal, published in 2019 by Verso Books. Our co-hosts will talk about the vitality and importance of this book and how the beating heart of any radical Green New Deal must include The Golden Square: the decommodification and universal provision of Food, Shelter, Healthcare and Education for All. We live in the worst version of a Cyberpunk world that doesn't even offer up androids or flying cars, while we gloat over our miniature technology & its secret surveillance as politicians offer up empty platitudes and technocratic masturbations. As the Social Ecologist, Murray Bookchin, once told us, the enemy isn't us; the enemy is the fossil fuel industry; the enemy lives inside McMansions and billionaire castles made by myths of perpetual market growth, peddled by the celebrity worshiping pyramid scheme of an influencer class clawing onto the old carcass of illegitimate hierarchies. We are in revolutionary times and collective actions require collective designs; so we must continue to draw the contours of what lies just beyond the horizon. We have a planet to win. Comprehensive Show Notes Can Be Found at thefutureisamixtape.com Feel Free to Contact Jesse & Matt on the Following Spaces & Places: thefutureisamixtape@gmail.com Facebook Twitter Instagram

This is a secret episode! Over the course of this series, several folk have asked whether I’d (David Lloyd) ever be interviewed.  Several luminaries kindly volunteered to interview me. Given the calibre of all the other subjects, I felt reticent. But – with lockdown and also passing 100  episodes - I thought I might succumb. I invited my oldest friend, Mark Runacus MBE to pose the questions. He and I met at hospital radio and he went on to accomplish a huge amount in the ad world. Radio missed his talents. He has been a wonderful friend. In this hour of Radio Moments Conversations, I talk about my journey from shy anorak to radio station manager and regulator. I open up about my childhood, the excitement of hospital radio and the glee of my first gig at Nottingham’s Radio Trent, before moving on to management at a troubled Leicester Sound. Then, walking out the door in tears to no job,  I tell of the unexpected task of establishing Lincs FM. Equally unexpected, I was recruited to the then regulator, the Radio Authority  where I helped both to licence and reprimand radio stations. Moving from there to run the music and speech regional Century brand for Border TV, before crossing to Chrysalis to seize the reins of a couple of the Galaxy stations, London then beckoned and a wonderful stint at the helm of LBC, before leaving as it became part of the foundation for Global Radio. Down the road in Golden Square, I moved to programme and market Virgin Radio and help manage the brand transition to Absolute. The most recent chapter saw me at Orion Media, where we bought and then sold a handful of major market commercial stations including BRMB, Gem 106 and Beacon. In my own words – this is my story. There’s a much better account of all this – and everything that surrounds it in our mad radio world  in my book Radio Moments (https://www.amazon.co.uk/Radio-Moments-Years-Life-Inside/dp/1785902725/ref=sr_1_1?) : Fifty years of radio – Life  on the Inside. Hear the whole ‘Radio Moments Conversations’ series here (https://podfollow.com/radiomoments-conversations) – and sign up for the regular podcast for this ongoing series. Music by Larry Bryant (http://www.larrybryant.com/) . 

On March 30th, 2020—as COVID-19 locked millions of panicked Americans in their homes—the homeless in Las Vegas were forced to sleep in white-chalked parking lots as the city's gleaming and empty casino-castles loomed above them and whose closed windows hid empty beds that could have provided warmth and safety. On April 11th, ten thousand cars lined up for a San Antonio Food Bank—the aerial photos of which became viral online, spreading to each digital device as rapidly as the virus had taken over our lives. We need a new human rights more than ever. For this episode, Matt & Jesse discuss the COVID-19 Pandemic and the collapse of our Old Bad World as the New Badder, Sadder World floods its diseased blood into our digital igloos. The co-hosts will talk about how the COVID-19 chaos not only deepens the contradictions of capitalism but also makes the rights to a dignified life all the more urgent, as people struggle with food insecurity (or abject hunger), unpaid rent and mortgages, the mass loss of healthcare access due to millions of Americans joining the outcaste status of the unemployed, and the incalculable cruelty of student debt piling up, impossible to pay. While these attacks on human dignity have been increasing under the Age of Bio-death that is Neoliberalism, COVID-19 makes clear a momentous tactical urgency to demand The Golden Square: the full emancipation from want by creating a global guarantee for the universal rights to food, shelter, healthcare and education. Jesse & Matt will briefly chart the carcass of Covid Capitalism while spending more time mapping the way from the storm to reach the shoreline of a dignified world: one we can still achieve through bold tactics, strategies and collective will. Comprehensive Show Notes Can Be Found at thefutureisamixtape.com Feel Free to Contact Jesse & Matt on the Following Spaces & Places: thefutureisamixtape@gmail.com Facebook Twitter Instagram

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Podcast Episode – Sam Kane Sam Kane is a 21-year-old Bendigo local. In 2012, Sam joined the community campaign to save Golden Square Pool from closure. Upon success in 2013, Sam joined the pool's Committee of Management as its youngest member, and in 2018 was elected by the pool's volunteers and members as the organisation's President. Sam now leads a passionate committee and a team of 90 volunteers and 10 staff to ensure the successful day-to-day operation of the facility, that has been transformed into a vibrant community hub that has welcomed over 108,000 patrons through the gates in just seven seasons. In 2019, Sam was named City of Greater Bendigo's Young Citizen of the Year for his service to the Golden Square community. He currently studies Politics and Media and Communications at The University of Melbourne.   Sam Kane's Contact Information: Facebook: Sam Kane LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sam-kane-298769137/   Golden Square Pools Contact Information: Facebook: Golden Square Pool Website: https://www.goldensquarepool.com.au/   Katrina van Eyk's Contact Information: Aquatic Mentors - https://www.aquaticmentors.com.au/ Facebook - Aquatic Mentors Regional Swim Clinics - www.regionalswimclinics.com.au Email - info@regionalswimclinics.com.au Facebook - Regional Swim Clinics

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50 years of Radio Northsea International (RNI); the art of test transmissions; BBC Radio Berkshire launches; Christian O’Connell arrives at Golden Square - and resigns; Chris Evans starts at the new Virgin; and Radio Forth launches. Enjoy the last week in radio history, ending January 24th 2020

Chatting all things footy, food and friends with one of Golden Square’s gun on-ballers and favourite sons; Adam “Skinny” Baird.

Harlots has another death! Oh noooooooo. @kittiekaboom & @lindaissogirlie break down this episode where Elizabeth’s old beau shows up to threaten and intimidate she & her son. Emily comes to her senses after hearing Hal & Isaac talk about her behind her back and admits that she knows who the killer is. Margaret is hell bent on revenge, & convinces Nancy not to leave town. Unfortunately, that means that she is in a position to confront Isaac, and when he pulls out his pistol, Nancy shoots first and kills him. Lydia threatens to tell the authorities that she knows Margaret is alive if Lucy does not sell back Golden Square to her & Jonas and William have a drink together to talk about Margaret’s fate. HARLOTS AFTER SHOW: Sex, love and war. Or in Margaret Wells case, sex and war. When her brothel business gets attacked by a rival, she risks everything to protect her business. On our HARLOTS AFTER SHOW we cover all the ins and outs from Margaret’s family and company to the war breaking out over London. If you have a special guest in mind you’d like to see on the after show, let us know and we will do our best to make it happen! ABOUT THE SERIES: In this drama set in 18th century London, Samantha Morton stars as Margaret Wells, a brothel owner and mother to two daughters, Charlotte and Lucy. When Margaret's business is attacked by Lydia Quigley (Lesley Manville), a ruthless rival madam, a war breaks out over the city's most profitable commercial activity -- sex. Margaret is determined to fight back and protect her business, even if it puts everything else at risk, including her family. Creators Moira Buffini and Alison Newman also serve as executive producers. Follow us on http://www.Twitter.com/AfterBuzzTV "Like" Us on http://www.Facebook.com/AfterBuzzTV Buy Merch at http://shop.spreadshirt.com/AfterbuzzTV/ --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Harlots has another death! Oh noooooooo. @kittiekaboom & @lindaissogirlie break down this episode where Elizabeth’s old beau shows up to threaten and intimidate she & her son. Emily comes to her senses after hearing Hal & Isaac talk about her behind her back and admits that she knows who the killer is. Margaret is hell bent on revenge, & convinces Nancy not to leave town. Unfortunately, that means that she is in a position to confront Isaac, and when he pulls out his pistol, Nancy shoots first and kills him. Lydia threatens to tell the authorities that she knows Margaret is alive if Lucy does not sell back Golden Square to her & Jonas and William have a drink together to talk about Margaret’s fate. HARLOTS AFTER SHOW: Sex, love and war. Or in Margaret Wells case, sex and war. When her brothel business gets attacked by a rival, she risks everything to protect her business. On our HARLOTS AFTER SHOW we cover all the ins and outs from Margaret’s family and company to the war breaking out over London. If you have a special guest in mind you’d like to see on the after show, let us know and we will do our best to make it happen! ABOUT THE SERIES: In this drama set in 18th century London, Samantha Morton stars as Margaret Wells, a brothel owner and mother to two daughters, Charlotte and Lucy. When Margaret's business is attacked by Lydia Quigley (Lesley Manville), a ruthless rival madam, a war breaks out over the city's most profitable commercial activity -- sex. Margaret is determined to fight back and protect her business, even if it puts everything else at risk, including her family. Creators Moira Buffini and Alison Newman also serve as executive producers. Follow us on http://www.Twitter.com/AfterBuzzTV "Like" Us on http://www.Facebook.com/AfterBuzzTV Buy Merch at http://shop.spreadshirt.com/AfterbuzzTV/ --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

In this Podcast Extra for Production Expert, Technical Editor James Ivey sits down with Matt Ward and David 'Saxon' Greenep of Jigsaw24 at the Jigsaw24 London headquarters in Golden Square,... With over 1 million visits a year, we’ve grown to be the place to come for Pro Tools training, resources, tips tricks and news

What would democracy look like if it first existed at the workplace rather than in the woesome consignment of America's party-politics, which renders our dreams for The Golden Square into Squalid Shit-mash? For this episode of The Future Is A Mixtape, Jesse & Matt have a discussion about this paradise where workers actually experience freedom, equity and solidarity with two folks who've jump-started one of the first media co-ops in Southern California: Dan Nowman Niswander, creator, host, and producer of The Nowman Show and Dr. George Kallas, a political analyst and Political Science Professor at Miramar College in San Diego. We'll learn about their chance-encounter and their epiphany to do the mind-meld by creating Arete Media Productions. Principally though, they will discuss why we mislabel democracy in Da Yankeelands, define what co-ops are, and also explain what makes worker-owned co-ops so very visionary in our Age of Workplace Tyranny & DollarDoom. Mentioned In This Episode: When We Recorded This Discussion, It Was Over 100 in Los Angeles But It Was Even Hotter in Record-Breaking San Francisco @ 106 F Erick Olin Wright in Jacobin: “How to Be an Anticapitalist Today” Jim McGuigan's Cool Capitalism How Neoliberalism Ramps Up Status-Games in University Life, and In Doing So, Creates Hierarchies of Abject Misery for the Rest of Us:Mike Rose for Inside Higher Ed: “Who Is Smarter Than Whom?” Benjamin Ginsberg in the Washington Monthly: “Administrators Ate My Tuition” Academic Rankings for Various Teaching Levels of Status Brandon Jordan in The Nation: “Building Student Power Through Participatory Budgeting” Participatory Budgeting Project: What Exactly Is It? Jason Rhode in Paste Magazine: “Kamala Harris Offers No New Hope” David Graeber's Legendary Haiku-Essay on Anarchy: “Are You an Anarchist? The Answer Might Surprise You!” Sherwood Ross in Veterans Today: “U.S. Imperialism Abroad Creating Police State at Home” Douglas Kihn in Truthout: “The US Is Not a Democracy and Never Was” Naked Capitalism: Interview with David Graeber on Democracy in America Does “UC” Stand for the University of California or the University of Capitalism? Lawrence Hunter in Forbes: “Why James Madison Was Wrong About a Large Republic” Ellen Bresler Rockmore in The New York Times: “How Texas Teaches History” Gail Collins in The New York Review of Books: “How Texas Inflicts Bad Textbooks on Us” James W. Loewen: “Lies My History Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong” RT America: Chris Hedges Visits Anderson, Indiana to Hear About Another “Sacrifice Zone” and How the Town Deals with the Loss of Thousands of Union Jobs Peter Richardson in The Los Angeles Times: “Democracy's Prisoner: Eugene V. Debs, the Great War, and the Right to Dissent by Ernest Freeberg” Home of Eugene Debs: Terre Haute, Indiana Biography of Eugene Debs: A Man Who Received a Million Votes for President While Still in Prison To Paraphrase Ludwig Wittgenstein: The Real Duty in Gaining a University Education Is to Ask, ‘Why?' David Graeber on Why Going to University Is About Returning to the Questions You Had as a Child: “Lecture by David Graeber: Resistance In A Time Of Total Bureaucratization / Maagdenhuis Amsterdam” Is the Internet Killing Critical Thinking? If Not, What Is? Nicholas Carr in Wired: “The Web Shatters Focus, Rewires the Brain” Dr. Paul Cartledge in BBC News: “Ancient History in Depth: The Democratic Experiment [in Greece]” Joshua Kurlantzick in The New Republic: “The Great Democracy Meltdown” The Nowman Show: KPFK Presents Richard Wolff at the Musician's Union, Hollywood Democracy at the Work: A 501(c)3 Organization Created by Richard Wolff to Inspire the Growth and Expansion of Unitary Worker Co-Ops. This Non-Profit Educational Organization Was Inspired by Wolff's Book, Democracy at Work: A Cure for Capitalism Matthew Snyder's First Confrontation with Crunchies & Organic Granola: Bellingham, Washington's Community Food Co-Op Michael Moore's Capitalism: A Love Story, which details two well-regarded unitary co-ops: Alvarado Street Bakery and Isthmus Engineering Living Utopia (Vivir la Utopia): A Documentary by Juan Gamero Who Interviews 30 Surviving Anarchists and Revolutionaries During the Catalonian Revolution from 1936-39. Barcelona Was an Entire City Made Up of Worker-Controlled Co-Ops as Seen in Manolo Gonzalez's Life in Revolutionary Barcelona Noam Chomsky's On Anarchism Equality of Opportunity Versus Equality of Outcome: Dylan Matthews in Vox: “The Case Against Equality of Opportunity” Matt, Not Michael Dukakis! It Was Vice-President Dan Quayle Who Flunked a Kid By Suggesting the Incorrect Spelling for ‘Potato' as ‘Potatoe' John Quiggen in Jacobin: “John Locke Against Freedom” {“John Locke's classical liberalism isn't a doctrine of freedom. It's a defense of expropriation and enslavement.”} First Nations and the Indigenous Did Not View Land as Personal Property or an Economic Fridge: Woo Hoo! A Lesson Plan for 6th to 8th Grade Students Europe's Diseased Paperwork as Freedom: A Title-to-Land A Historical Guide of Worker Cooperatives: Past, Present and Possible Futures Dan Niswander's Clever Lyrical Reference to Pink Floyd's Song “Brain Damage”: “The lunatic is in the hall./ The lunatics are in my hall./ The paper holds their folded faces to the floor/ And every day the paper boy brings more.” Mondragon Company: A Multi-Billion Dollar Cooperative in the Basque Region of Spain, Which Was Created and Conceived as Far Back as 1956 Mondragon's Miracle Backlight: A Documentary About This Gift from the Basque Region Gar Alperovitz's America Beyond Capitalism: Reclaiming Our Wealth, Our Liberty, Our Democracy WSDE Workers' Self-Directed Enterprises -- by Richard Wolff Dan Nowman Interviews Matt & Jesse on The Nowman Show With a Later Panel Discussion with George Kallas Feel Free to Contact Jesse & Matt on the Following Spaces & Places: Email Us: thefutureisamixtape@gmail.com Find Us Via Our Website: The Future Is A Mixtape Or Lollygagging on Social Networks: Facebook Twitter Instagram

On this episode, Jesse & Matt discuss their fraught and less than ambivalent feelings about their first time at Southern California's Politicon, and provide a discerning look at how it represents the shallow conceptions of what politics so often involve, and how it could have been reimagined as a democratic space for transformational insights and real debates. The majority of the podcast will discuss solutions to create a utopian future (or at least one that guarantees The Golden Square) by combining the co-hosts' deflowered experience at Politicon with Episode 12's arm-wrestling over how to get to this future they keep pressing for. Jesse & Matt will do this by offering up The Slingshot Seven: a policy platform of ideas for anti-authoritarians and activists to demand and work toward, and in doing so, build real power inside the Meth-house of America's 21st Century. Mentioned In This Episode: Ben Norton in Counterpunch: “Ann Coulter: A Jackboot in Guccis” Libby Watson in Splinter: “Why Did Politicon Make Me Want To Die?” Politicon's 2016 Art Gallery Exhibit Gone from the 2017 Convention: Where Did It Go? Some Memorable Photos from the 2016's Exhibit: Here, Here, Here, Here, and Here Clio Chang in the New Republic: “Politcon Is the Perfect Media Racket for the Trump Era” What is Whuffie? How Cory Doctorow's Celebrity/Fan Economy Lends Itself to the Following Predicament: “Wealth Inequality Is Even Worse in Reputation Economies”  Why Isn't the Price for Internet Dropping as Technology Accelerates with New Supposed Efficiencies? John Oliver's Last Week Tonight Explains . . . Peter Beinart Reviews Ann Coulter's Recent Book in “Trump We Trust” for The Atlantic Which Nazi Kicks More Ass as a Media-Monger & Sith-Lord Propagandist:  Roger Stone or Joseph Goebbels? Photos of Politicon's “Democracy Village”: Here, Here, Here, Here and The Future Is A Mixtape's Booth! Arty Leftists Infiltrate Ann Coulter's Discussion with Nazi Outfits Melina Abdullah: “Red hats are essentially the new white sheets.” Full Excerpt on YouTube. The Yes Men's Most Recent Prank: Coming to DNC as Democratic Party Officials by Announcing #DNCTakeBack Full of Bernie Platform Ideals. The Facebook 28ers' Event (October 6th, 2015): “A Madhatter's Theatre Presents: ‘The Yes Men Are Revolting' at UCR”: Here, Here, Here and Here Platform of New Democrats: Bernie Sanders Platform Was Widely Popular Performance Art Versus Social Practice Art: The Yes Men Embodied Change by Imagining It: The Duo Passed Out Fake New York Times Broadsheets to Imagine a Progressive Utopia Politicon's Schedule of Events: “Where Are All of the More Pressing & Important Topics Missing from the Convention?” A Nice Roundup of Political Gatherings in 2017 We Would Have Rather Gone To: The People's Summit (June 9th-to-11th) & the Socialism Conference (July 6th-to-9th) & DSA National Convention (August 3rd-to-6th) Our Local LA Democratic Socialists of America Meeting Versus “Draft Bernie for a People's Party” Wolf PAC & The 28th Movement: It's History & Official Website The 28ers' General Website & It's Swarmwise Campaign Page for SB-562 Bernie Sanders Won 43% of the National Primary Vote for The Democratic Party “The Democratic Party Is a Graveyard for Social Movements” & Lance Selfa's Book on the Old Adage: The Democrats: A Critical History Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers in Truthdig: “What the U.S. Can Learn from the U.K. Election and Jeremy Corbyn” Norway's Elections: Clear, Transparent and Publically Funded Bernie Sanders' Responding to The New York Times Magazine on What the Democratic Party Really Stands for:“You're asking a good question, and I can't give you a definitive answer. Certainly there are some people in the Democratic Party who want to maintain the status quo. They would rather go down with the Titanic so long as they have first-class seats.” Keith Ellison Backs Out of Promise to Get Rid of Corporate Donations & Lobbying Money to the DNC to Win the Chairship Position The Tory Party's 2017 Manifesto The Labour Party's 2017 Manifesto   Jesse Herring's Suggestion for 7-Point Platform, “The Slingshot Seven”: Healthcare for All Renewable Energy Plan Toward 100% Usage Universal Basic Income (UBI) for All Demilitarization: Both Domestic & Foreign Tuition-Free Education Getting Money Out of Politics $15-Hour Minimum Wage (Adjusted to Inflation)   Grover Norquist: Taxation Is Theft: Sign This Contract to Promise No New Taxes: “Norquist's Tax Pledge: What It Is and How It Started” Are Our Shownotes Becoming More Unwieldy Than the Footnotes for David Foster Wallace's The Infinite Jest? You Decide . . . EDUCATION VERSUS FOSSIL FUELS: The Atlantic: “Here's Exactly How Much the Government Would Have to Spend to Make Public College Tuition-Free” (Answer: $62 Billion) OR ThinkProgress: “Producers of oil, gas and coal received more than $500 billion in government subsidies around the world in 2011, with the richest nations collectively spending more than $70 billion every year to support fossil fuels.” Richard Wolff on Capitalism: “What Happens to Workers' Necessary Versus Surplus Labor?” George H.W. Bush's at the 1992 Republican Convention: “Read My Lips: No New Taxes” (on YouTube) The Republican Party's 1994 Revenge Strategy: “Contract With America” Frank Underwood on “Ruthless Pragmatism” (on YouTube) China Mieville's “The Limits of Utopia” Published in Salvage & Why We Have to ‘Utopia Hard' Ursula K. Le Guin on Anarchy: “What is an anarchist? One who, choosing, accepts the responsibility of choice.” Why Alex Garland's Ex Machina Might Be Important to Think About . . . Why Might We Need Earthquake Prevention Warning Systems Instead of More Military-Industrial-Complex Waste?U.S. News: “Trump's Budget Cuts West Coast Quake Warning System Funding”  VERSUS Business Insider: “Here Is The Earthquake Warning System Japan Spent $1 Billion To Build” Feel Free to Contact Jesse & Matt on the Following Spaces & Places: Email Us: thefutureisamixtape@gmail.com Find Us Via Our Website: The Future Is A Mixtape Or Lollygagging on Social Networks: Facebook Twitter Instagram

On this episode of The Future Is A Mixtape, Matthew & Jesse go beyond Michael Moore's Where to Invade Next and his apt citations of policy successes in other societies found outside the U.S., and will instead grapple with the stasis of the Left and its tragic inability to wrest change from the Death-Dealers of Neoliberalism. How can we learn from both the past and present to make another world possible? How can we transcend the suffering and carnage found in our daily lives that are as deceptively petty as buying child-socks at Target, but are, nonetheless, consumer rituals made heavy by unseen violence? Join our co-hosts as they do a politically drunk version of Jiu-Jitsu via the wreckage of what lies behind, around and ahead of us. Jesse & Matt will then imagine what strategies and tactics are most deserving of our attention in the here-and-now, so we can transcend The Poison Pyramid and finally arrive at The Golden Square. Mentioned In This Episode: Prior Discussions on The Poison Pyramid: Episode 001 on Religion: “The Desire for Certainty” Episode 002 on Capitalism: “The Invisible Hand” Episode 003 on Celebrity: “Star-Fuckers” Prior Discussions on The Golden Square: Episode 007 on Food: “Grammars of the Palate” Episode 008 on Shelter: “Gimme Shelter” Episode 009 on Healthcare: “An Apple A Day . . .” Episode 010 on Education: “Squaring the Golden Square: Education” Viewing Copies of Michael Moore's Where to Invade Next What is a ShitBox? “The ShitBox Commercial Product Review” The History of Basic Income's Origins from Thomas Paine & Beyond Mother Jones Magazine: “250 Years of Campaigns, Cash, and Corruption: From George Washington to Citizens United, a Timeline of America's History of Political Money Games” Moyers & Company: One-Hour Documentary - “The United States of ALEC” The Original Exposé on the Koch Brothers' Wealth and Political Manipulation by The New Yorker, published in 2010: Jane Mayer's “Covert Operations: The Billionaire Brothers Who Are Waging War on Obama” A Story of Winners and Losers in 99 Homes: YouTube Excerpt of Michael Shannon Discussing Why America Only Bails Out the Winners Ramin Bahrani's 99 Homes: The Feature Film. Starring Laura Dern, Michael Shannon, and Andrew Garfield. The Los Angeles Review of Books: “On Bureaucracy and the Left” by Guy Patrick Cunningham David Graeber's The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity and The Secret Joys of Bureaucracy The Norwegian American: “How Norwegian Do It: National Elections in Norway” The 28ers' Official Website: “The organization was established in 2012 from the ashes of Occupy Riverside, and is now a 501(c)4 non-profit that aims to pass a 28th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution by creating exclusive public financing for all federal elections, and forever sever private wealth from politics.” Joe Scarborough in Politico: “Obama's Friendship with Wall Street” (2011) The Sunlight Foundation: “The Max Baucus Health Care Lobbyist Complex” Lawrence Lessig's TEDtalk: “We the People, and the Republic We Must Reclaim” Counterpunch: “The Woman Who Blew the Whistle on Halliburton Gets Canned” Financial Times on No-Bid Contracts: “Contractors Reap $138bn from Iraq War” UC Davis' Center for Poverty Research: “What Is the History of the Minimum Wage?” The Official Website for Wolf PAC: It's Vision, Plan and Course for Actions Wolf PAC's Progress Toward Calling for a Constitutional Convention: Five States Thus Far What Is an Article V Convention? It's Origins, History and Potential for Change. The ERA Movement: The Equal Rights Amendment Act Beacon Broadside: “Phyllis Schlafly: Still Wrong (and Mean) After All of These Years” Old Enough to Die in War, But Not Old Enough to Vote? A Wikipedia History of the 26th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and How Student Protests Pushed Congress to Enact Its Ratification Process for Later Passage in 1971. The Washington Times: “Noam Chomsky: The Republican Party Most Dangerous Organization ‘in Human History'” The Washington Post: “Democrats Troll House Republicans, Sing and Wave ‘Bye-Bye' as AHCA Passes” Youtube Video of Democrats Singing “Goodbye” Song Youtube Video of Democratic Convention Where Sarah Silverman Says to Berners: “Can I Say to the Bernie-Or-Bust People: You're Being Ridiculous!” Gawker: “Report: Hillary Clinton Used Static Noise Machine to Prevent Reporters from Hearing Fundraising Speech” CNN News: “Sanders Supporters Shower Clinton Motorcade with Dollar Bills” Jane F. McAlevey's No Shortcuts: Organizing for Power in the New Gilded Age Moyers & Company: Marshall Ganz on Making Social Movements Matter: “Occupy Mistook a Tactic for a Strategy” Murray Bookchin: Social Anarchism or Lifestyle Anarchism: An Unbridgeable Chasm Naomi Klein's This Changes Everything: The Climate Versus Capitalism Nick Srnicek and Alex Williams: Inventing the Future: Postcapitalism and a World Without Work What was the Mont Pelerin Society, Its Aims & Who Was Its Founders? Nancy MacClean's Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan for America The North Star: Mark Fisher's “Exiting the Vampire Castle” Russell Brand's Brilliant Counterpunches When Being Cross-Examined by Jeremy Paxman on BBC's Newsnight (& Not Getting All the Ethical Issues Right - How DARE HIM!) Cenk Uygur's Ill-Conceived Idea of Starting Justice Democrats Instead of Doubling Down on Wolf PAC New Poll Shows Money in Politics Is A Top Voting Concern According to 2015 Study, 90% of Democrats, 84% of Republicans and 80% of Republicans Say That Money in Politics Has Too Much of an Influence on Our Democracy The Los Angeles Times: “California Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon shelves single-payer healthcare bill, calling it 'woefully incomplete'” Ryan Skolnick: “Anthony Rendon Is Wrong: SB 562 Is Not Woefully Incomplete” Robert Pollin's Defense of SB-562 in The Intercept: “Why Single Payer, Now, Is for Real”   Feel Free to Contact Jesse & Matt on the Following Spaces & Places: Email Us: thefutureisamixtape@gmail.com Find Us Via Our Website: The Future Is A Mixtape Or Lollygagging on Social Networks: Facebook Twitter Instagram

On this episode of The Future Is A Mixtape, Jesse & Matt finally shoot off some long-stored Roman Candles, letting their fireworks rain down on an area of community life they've spent an inordinate amount of time living inside of: the looking glass of education. As the fourth node of The Golden Square, education is the capstone of these most basic and essential human rights. It's hard to imagine any human future that's vital or dynamic without education's essential place in the foundation of society. The co-hosts will both celebrate this cornerstone of the Golden Square as well lament its capture and brutalization from Neoliberalism's Extermination Matrix. In the last section of the discussion, Matt & Jesse will blast-out their final volleys of Roman Candles by outlining a utopian future and framework for education that all of humanity so richly deserves. And in this slice of imagineering, our guides will assert that education is a right that should be extended from the cradle to the grave. Mentioned In This Episode: Stephen Jay Gould: “I am somehow less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.” As quoted in New Scientist, March 8, 1979, p. 777    John Rawls and The Veil of Ignorance: A Theory of Justice   Stephen Fry Narrates an Animation About John Rawls' Idea of The Veil of Ignorance   When Should Kids Learn to Read, Write, and Do Math?   Study: Holding Kids Back A Grade Doesn't Necessarily Hold Them Back   The Beliefs of Jehovah's Witnesses   Can Jehovah's Witnesses Have Friends Outside Of Their Religion?   Number of Educational Institutions in the U.S.   The War On Teachers: Why the Public is Watching it Happen   George Bush's Dastardly & Doofus No Child Left Behind   Obama's Braindead Program for Education With His Race to the Top   In 2006, Finland Ranked #1. Even Though the Results Have Declined, Finland Still Ranks Among the Top Countries.   The Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) - 2015 Interactive World Map   U.S. Students' Academic Achievement Still Lags That of Their Peers in Many Other Countries The 2017 Condition of Education Report LARPing: Live Action RolePlaying - The Future of Education? Study: Suspensions Harm 'Well-Behaved' Kids Chart: See 20 Years of Tuition Growth at National Universities Tuition and Fees and Room and Board over Time, 1976-77 to 2016-17 ‘The Tuition Is Too Damn High' The Student Loan Debt Crisis in 9 Charts Student Loan Debt Statistics 2017 Student Loans Owned and Securitized, Outstanding State Cuts to Higher Education Threaten Quality and Affordability at Public Colleges Who Got Rich Off The Student Debt Crisis Noam Chomsky: The Death of American Universities Henry A. Giroux - Thinking Dangerously: The Role of Higher Education in Authoritarian Times University of California: State Spending on Corrections and Education The High Salaries & Lavish Benefits of University Administrators Benjamin Ginsberg in Washington Monthly: “Administrators Ate My Tuition” The Utopia Of Rules By David Graeber Daniel Pink - “Autonomy, Mastery & Purpose” 10 Ultra-Successful Millionaire and Billionaire College Dropouts Famous Directors Who Never Went to Film School UC Davis Chancellor Resigns After Pepper-Spray Scandal Lecture by David Graeber: Resistance In A Time Of Total Bureaucratization Ken Robinson: Changing Education Paradigms   Feel Free to Contact Jesse & Matt on the Following Spaces & Places: Email Us: thefutureisamixtape@gmail.com Find Us Via Our Website: The Future Is A Mixtape Or Lollygagging on Social Networks: Facebook Twitter Instagram

On this episode, Jesse & Matt discuss the third most important element of The Golden Square which is so simple and obvious, that it's remarkable this idea is even contested as a human right in the Yankee-lands of Ol' Red, White and Blue: the absolute right to healthcare for every human being on Earth. Matthew will provide a surprising prologue about what's suddenly taken place in his personal life since this episode's initial recording and open up about his mother's life-long illness; in call & response fashion, Jesse will then talk about what it was like to get healthcare in Sarah-Palin-Land as a child. The co-hosts will also explore their personal relationships to this essential cornerstone to The Golden Square, and their own anxieties about having access to healthcare as middle-aged men with pre-existing conditions. And lastly, Matt & Jesse will look at healthcare systems around the world, and offer up a poignant portrait of the very near and immediate struggles facing activists as they fight for a momentous Single Payer bill in California (SB-562). Mentioned In This Episode: Matthew's Heavy-Breathing Prologue: What Is a Double Pulmonary Embolism? Wikipedia Wants to Help. The Speaker of the State Assembly, Anthony Rendon, Blocks SB-562 Why Is Single Payer in California Being Blocked? Money in Politics. The Start-Dates for Universal Healthcare in Other Nations: A 20th Century Invention Ready for America's 21st Century? Prologue Over & Now for the Actual Show! Kathy Griffin / Reza Aslan: Why Free Speech Is for Everyone! We Believe In It!Jehova's Witness & Blood Transfusions: Wikipedia Provides Bloodless Triage The Hanford Reservation, Plutopia: “The Bomb and the Explosions of U.S. Suburbs” Neil Burton in Psychology Today: “A Short History of Bipolar Disorder” The Fat Man & Little Boy Bombs: “The Men Who Dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki”  Ronald Reagan's ‘Strange' Gift: COBRA: Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1985 PBS Newshour: 70% of American College Teachers Are Part-Time/Adjuncts Explaining Neoliberal Tourette Syndrome (NTS): Michael J. Sandel's What Money Can't Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets George Lakoff's Don't Think Like Elephants: Know Your Values & Frame the Debate George Lakoff's Metaphors We Live By YouTube Clip of George Lakoff: “Idea Framing, Metaphors and Your Brain” Salon Interviews Psychologist Gail Saltz: “Study: Liberals and Conservatives Have Different Brain Structures” Prefrontal Cortex Last to Form in Humans & Why Teenagers Do The Craziest Things Saul D. Alinsky's Rules for Radicals: A Practical Guide for Realistic Radicals Saul D. Alinksy on Being Your Own Witness & Why the Right Hates Him So Much Why the Left Falsely Thinks Logic Will Win the Day: “Keep Losing Arguments? A Psychologist Explains Why Emotions Are More Persuasive Than Logic.” Western Society's Classic Understanding of Rhetoric: “The Three Means of Persuasion: Pathos, Logos & Ethos” The U.S. Metrics For Healthcare Delivery Are Both Dizzying & Sad: We Spend 3 Trillion for Healthcare Annually U.S. Health Care from a Global Perspective National Health Expenditures 2015 Highlights The United States Has Lowest Life Expectancy in the Industrialized World & the Rate Actually Went Down for First Time in Decades We Have the Highest Infant Mortality Rate in the Industrialized World 62% of US Bankruptcies from Healthcare Emergencies Medical Bankruptcy accounts for majority of personal bankruptcies Top 10 Reasons People Go Bankrupt Warren Buffett: America's Healthcare Costs “the Tapeworm to American Competitiveness” What Is a “5150”? A Wikipedia Working Definition. Time Magazine: “Here's How Much the Average Worker Has to Pay for Healthcare” Business Insider: Map of the Biggest Employers in the US: UC System Is #1 for California The Rich History of Workers Compensation Obamacare came from Heritage Foundation & It's Essentially a Nixonian Idea The Affordable Health Care Act for America Michael Moore's Masterpiece: Sicko (2007) - (At the Time the Documentary's  Release, France Had the Best System in the World) Top Ten Healthcare Rankings By Nation: Denmark Has #1 Healthcare System in the World; Not Surprisingly, Mostly Scandinavian Nations Are in the Rankings. Worldwide Spending on Healthcare Political Scientist Corey Robin's Book: The Reactionary Mind: Conservatism from Edmund Burke to Sarah Palin Irony of Ironies: World Health Organization's Study on Healthcare Efficiency Ranked America's System 37 and Communist Cuba's 39 (with Cuba Having a Lower Infant Mortality Rate). The New Zealand Herald: “New Zealand Reclaims Title as World's Least Corrupt Country” Rose Ann Demoro, the Executive Director for the California Nurses Association Says, “There is a conspiracy of silence on Single Payer.” Daniel Marans in The Huffington Post: HR-676 - Medicare-for-All - Representative John Conyers' “Bill Has Never Been This Popular” Pew Research Center: “Currently, 60% say the federal government is responsible for ensuring health care coverage for all Americans, while 39% say this is not the government's responsibility.” The Economist/YouGov Poll April 2 - 4, 2017 Once Something Might Be Taken Away: TrumpCare Actually Made Obamacare More Popular and More Well-Known as to Its Benefits President Obama Jokes that Obamacare Is More Popular Than Trump Tragic Nostalgia Time: “Bernie Sanders for President” Website on Medicare for All: Save U.S. $5 trillion over 10 years; Families would pay $466 and save $5,807; Businesses would save $9,000 a year on average. Democracy Now!: “Report: Senator Max Baucus Received More Campaign Money from Health and Insurance Industry Interests than Any Other Member of Congress” Democracy Now!: “Baucus's Raucous Caucus: Doctors, Nurses and Activists Arrested Again for Protesting Exclusion of Single-Payer Advocates at Senate Hearing on Healthcare” The Problem with President Obama Thinking Like a Community Organizer: Unions Make Impossible Demands and Then Move to the Center, Whereas Community Organizers Start in the Middle: Jane F. McAlevey's No Shortcuts: Organizing for Power in the New Gilded Age YouTube Clip: Rahm Emanuel Sold Us Short for Bad Healthcare Deals: “Never Let a Good Crisis Go to Waste” Curtis Black in the The Chicago Reporter: “Emanuel Is the Last Person to Give Democrats Advice on Strategy” YouTube Clip: During a Rare Townhall Appearance, Democratic Senator Dianne Feinstein Calls Medicare for All a “Government Take-Over” YouTube Clip: Lauren Steiner (from Robust Opposition) Questions Dianne Feinstein About Townhall Response Concerning Medicare for All. Healthy California's Website for SB-562: Healthy California Act Inland Empire: “The New Jersey of California” The 28ers: An Original Affinity Group from Occupy Riverside & Its Swarm Campaign for SB-562 Norway: #1 Is Now the Happiest Place on Earth - Very Strong Public Financing System: 74% Public Funds; 26% Party Memberships Dues Organizations in Support of SB-562: Healthy California Act California Nurses Association's Main Website Nurses Most Trusted Profession Again in America: 15 Years & Counting Bernie Sanders Gives a Shout-Out to SB-562 and Nurses Created the Biggest Ovation and Response at Chicago's People's Summit New York Quite Close to Getting Single Payer in the State: One Vote Short Vermont's Attempt to Establish a Single-Payer Healthcare System 2016 Colorado Care: “Single-Payer Health Care Dream Dies In Colorado” Previous Single Payer Bills in Calfornia “Dirty Little Secret: Insurers Actually Are Making a Mint from Obamacare” California Senate Passes SB-562 “Single Payer Would Save Us All a Lot of Money” Economic Analysis of the Healthy California Single-Payer Health Care Proposal (SB-562) - UMass Amherst Tommy Douglas: "The Greatest Canadian" Breaking Bad: All You Need To Know About The American Health Care System List of Countries with Universal Health Care Nina Turner's Keynote Speech in Sacramento for SB-562: “Dear Democrats: Stop Talking About Russia & Tell Us What You're Going To Do About Healthcare.” “Just when you think you're in a tomb, remind yourselves you're in a womb.” How The Labour Party Created Britain's National Health Service (NHS)

Gentrification. Housing Bubbles. Developers & Their “Pay 2 Play” Campaign Donations (Bribes) to City Council Members. And then there's the needless cruelty of permanent homelessness. On this episode, Jesse & Matt ratchet-up their manifesto on their Mixtape for the Future by talking about the second-most important cornerstone of The Golden Square: namely, the universal right to human shelter. While a good deal of the debate and conversation will provide a clear-sighted and information-packed survey on the problems, causes and solutions involved with creating universal rights to housing, Matt & Jesse will also expand past common notions of shelter that often go unnoticed in the popular conversations found in daily rituals. And in doing so, the co-hosts hope to transcend the blind and abject observations from America's TV-Clown punditry on housing. Mentioned in this episode: Prashant Gopal in Bloomberg: “Homeownership Rate in the U.S. Drops to Lowest Since 1965” After the Recession, Blackstone and Other Hedge Funds Are Big Buyers of Domestic Homes: The Real News Network's “Another US Housing Bubble?” Is Employment Actually Up? Birth/Death Statistics from the America's Department of Labor Hilary Osborne in The Guardian: “Home Ownership in England at Lowest Level in 30 Years as Housing Crisis Grows” BBC: “General Election 2017: Labour Pledges to Build 1M New Homes” David Harvey's RSA Animate: “Crises Of Capitalism” NPR's Terry Gross Interviews Historian Richard Rothstein: The American Government's Horrific Racism in Housing: From Blockbusting to Covenants and the GI-Bill's “Whites-Only Housing Loans” Median Home Prices in San Jose Versus Median Home Prices in Youngstown Poppy Noor's Guardian Editorial: “Utopian Thinking: Free Housing Should Be a Universal Right” MintPress News: “Empty Homes Outnumber the Homeless 6 to 1, So Why Not Give Them Homes?” Lack of Resources to Accurately Count Increased Homelessness in Riverside County & The Inland Empire The Los Angeles Times' 2017 Report Housing Insecurity: “L.A. County Homelessness Jumps a Staggering 23% as Need Far Outpaces Housing, New Count Shows” The Los Angeles Times: An Interactive Map of Homelessness in L.A. County (2015) Mela Megat in The Highlander: “UCR Takes Steps to End Food Insecurity Among Students” Rosanna Xia in The Los Angeles Times: “1 in 10 of Cal State Students Are Homeless, Study Finds” Matthew Snyder's Darkly-Lit Snark: "O Great: Amber Alert for the Homeless" Ken Ilgunas, Duke University Student: Walden on Wheels: On The Open Road from Debt to Freedom The New York Times' Feature Article on Ken Ilgunas: “When Home Is a Parking Lot” Twitter Page Dedicated to Millennials' Experiments with #Vanlife Part II of Matthew Snyder's Darkly-Lit Snark: "Make Millennial Poverty Hip Again" Wikipedia's Historical Overview of the “Rent Is Too Damn High Party” Wikipedia's Biography on the Founder of the “Rent Is Too Damn High Party,” Jimmy McMillan: “An American political activist, perennial candidate, karate expert, and Vietnam War veteran, as well as a former postal worker, stripper and private investigator from Brooklyn, New York.” Percentage of Rent-controlled Homes in Los Angeles City The Guardian's Major Reveal: the Panama Papers and the Explosive Investments (by Wealth-Squatters) Discovered in the Big City Real Estate Market of London Varying LA City Propositions to Deal with Both Housing and Homelessness: The Los Angeles Times' Editorial Board and Their Op-Ed Against Measure S The Los Angeles Times' Editorial Board's and Their Support for Measure H The Los Angeles Times' Explores Measure S Versus Measure H Joshua Bregman's June 1st, 2017 Facebook Post on LA's Housing Crisis: “This is one of the bluest cities in one of the bluest states in the country. This place is run by Democrats and has been since forever. This has nothing to do with Republicans or Trump. We've got high-rise luxury condos sprouting up all over Downtown that no one actually lives in. Massive gleaming skyscrapers sitting there empty while more and more people are forced out of doors. This is a disaster. I've been to developing countries that have less people living on the streets than the second-largest city in the wealthiest country in the world. So here's a proposal: how about not another goddamn viral clip, or tweet or magazine cover or open letter or vacuous emission of another goddamn celebrity or late-night comedian or entertainment industry luminary talking about Trump or Russia or “backwards ignorant America that votes against its own self-interest” or cracking jokes about the racist, sexist rubes that live out in the sticks until this shit is fixed? Do you seriously think this shit is not racist and sexist? How about not getting to be in the 1%, or even the 10%, to drive past literal tent-encampments on your way to work, to step over the dispossessed just moments before they turn on your spotlight and soundcheck your mic, and have a goddamn thing you have to say about politics and society get listened to? How about not getting to publicly opine about national, much less geo-politics until you can figure out how your own city council works and you drag your camera crews to right outside your studio doors and show the world what's going on in America in 2017, in one of the "strongholds" of "the resistance"? How about that?” How Police and Firefighter Unions Take Precedence Over City Housing Budgets The Los Angeles Times: Housing Developers Own City Councils Via Campaign Donations, But That Should End Excerpt from Jake Halpern's Fame Junkies: How Martha Stewart's Insider-Trading Scandal (130 minutes) Dwarfed the Coverage of the War in Darfur (26 minutes)    UN Report (2005): A Shocking 100 Million People Are Homeless in the World & Over 1 Billion Humans Face Inadequate Shelter Slate Magazine: How, in 2005, the Bush Administration Made Student-Debt Forgiveness Nearly Impossible (*Hint: Banks Lobbied Politicians) Vice: American Students, Debt Ridden, Now Flee to Europe to Avoid Loan Repayments Powerful Youtube Clip from 99 Homes -- Michael Shannon Spits Out the Truth to Andrew Garfield About How America “Always Bails Out the Winners” Ramin Bahrani's 99 Homes: A Film About the US Recession and Its Epic Housing Foreclosure Crisis The Big Short: Michael Lewis' 2011 Book & Its Later 2015 Film Adaptation Background on the NINJA (or NINA) Loans: “Non Income No Asset” How the Repeal of the Glass Steagall Act Magnified the Great Recession's Reach Why Infrastructure Is Equivalent to Shelter: Its Benefits to Slum-Dwellings Clothing as Shelter Time Magazine: “Japan's Earthquake and Tsunami Warning System Explained” California Senate Leader, Kevin de Leon, Calls California the 5th Largest Economy After Britain's Brexit Vote The 2017 ASCE Infrastructure Report Card - America's Cumulative GPA Is Once Again a D+ An MIT Study, By Economist Peter Temin, Says America Has Devolved into a Developing Nation Instead of Looking More Like Europe's Infrastructure Peter Temin's The Vanishing Middle Class: Prejudice and Power in a Dual Economy America's Stunning Incarceration Rates: The United States Has 25% of the World's Total Prison Population Even Though the U.S. Only Makes Up 5% of World's Human Population Jake Blumgart in Slate Magazine: “How Bernie Sanders Made Burlington Affordable” The National Community Land Trust Network: FAQ - What Is a Community Land Trust? There Are Over 250 Community Land Trusts (CLTs) in America The Common Good Podcast: “Episode 8: Community. Land. Trust” (Interview with Two Key Players in San Diego's First Land Trust Association) -{Matthew Snyder's Essay on “The Circle-Jerk of Gentrification” (Forthcoming!)}- The Village Voice: “National Punch a Hipster Is Tomorrow, Apparently” Peter Frase in Jacobin Magazine: “Resenting Hipsters” Tyrone Beason in The Seattle Times: “Seattle's Vanishing Black Community” The Los Angeles Times' Long, Heart-Rending Feature Article on San Bernardino's Crumbling Housing Sectors The Guardian at Cannes: The Riveting Feature Film Premiere of Sean Baker's The Florida Project Why Public-Private Partnerships So Often Fail Director Roko Belic's Documentary Happy Youtube Excerpt From the Documentary Happy, Which Explores the Powerful Benefits of the Danish Co-Housing Model UCR Housing: It's Rich, Beautiful History and Its Tragic & Barbaric Closing Maureen Dowd, from The New York Times, Complains About Student Dormers Self-Selecting Roommates: “Don't Send in the Clones” Other Supplementary Facts and Sources Concerning Shelter: HUD: The 2016 Annual Homeless Assessment Report (AHAR) to Congress NOVEMBER 2016: 549,928 people were experiencing homelessness in the United States. As of September 8th, 2016 — ATTOM Data Solutions, the nation's leading source for comprehensive housing data and the new parent company of RealtyTrac, today released its Q3 2016 U.S. Residential Property Vacancy and Zombie Foreclosure Report, which shows nearly 1.4 million (1,361,188) U.S. residential properties (1 to 4 units) representing 1.6 percent of all residential properties were vacant as of the end of the third quarter. On the Streets: A 12-part video series about homelessness in Southern California--with one of the stories involving a UCLA Grad student living in a car. HERE'S WHAT AN AVERAGE APARTMENT COSTS IN 50 U.S. CITIES Averages from all 50 cities on the list: Median rent for 1-bedroom apartment: $1,234.43 Square footage of 1-bedroom apartment: 678.32 square feet San Francisco, California $3600 San Jose, California $2536 New York, New York $2200 Washington, DC $2172 Boston, Massachusetts $2025 Los Angeles, California $2014 Miami, Florida $2000 ON CO-HOUSING COMMUNITIES: The Kalkbreite cooperative in Zurich suggests how co-ops will become a viable housing option for the 21st century. How Cohousing Communities Help Prevent Social Isolation.

For this week's episode, Matt & Jesse transition away from talking about which man-made myths must be stripped out from the the mixtape for the future (“The Poison Pyramid”) or what should just be ignored while they haplessly spiral in the drain (“The Circle”). Instead, our co-hosts will introduce a new idea-shape “The Golden Square,” which is comprised of the four most essential tracks in our shared mixtape for the future. All too often, the notion of rights in nation-states don't acknowledge the fundamental requirements of a just society, but our Golden Square is composed of four tracks that are essential for our shared future. The first fundamental and most immediate cornerstone of this square, and one we would be hard-pressed to ignore is the universal right to food. Mentioned on this episode: Racial & Economic Divides in D.C. Grocery Stores David Love & Vijay Das in Civil Eats: “America's Food Deserts Need Community Efforts, Not Big Box Stores” Universal Declaration of Human Rights The Difference Between Positive and Negative Rights The Difference Between Positive and Negative Liberty Abraham Maslow and his Hierarchy of Needs The Life & Work of the Social & Political Theorist Isaiah Berlin A Historical Overview of the U.S. Military Budget: 600 Billion & Counting How America Went from the Gold Standard to Becoming a Fiat Currency David Graeber's Debt: A 5,000 Year History Stuffed and Starved: The Hidden Battle for the World Food System by Raj Patel James Durston in CNN: “Airline ‘Fat Tax': Should Heavy Passengers Pay More?” Disneyland Had to Revamp It's a Small World Boats for Heavier Passengers Anohni's Belief in Wicca, Feminism and Obama's Drone Presidency Half of all US food produce is thrown away, new research suggests Food Loss and Waste in the US: The Science Behind the Supply Chain These 10 companies make a lot of the food we buy. Corn Flakes Were Part of an Anti-Masturbation Crusade Scientific Studies: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver Replication crisis José Bové vs. McDonald's Livestock and Climate Change California's Drought — Who's Really Using all the Water? Cowspiracy a film by Kip Anderson Veganism & The Environment: by the numbers Playing God in the Garden By Michael Pollan 7-Day Juice Challenge Forks Over Knives Food, Inc.

Paul Sylvester, Head of Content at Absolute Radio, gives Trevor Dann a tour of Bauer Media's iconic HQ, No 1 Golden Square, the home of Kiss, Magic, Kerrang, Planet Rock and all the Absolute stations. Plus news and Radio Moments.

​What small little changes could you make to up your game? What simple lifestyle practices could you use right now to increase your performance levels? How could you find an extra 5% and feel awesome every day? Today's Zestology guest is a favourite of mine and a fave on the podcast too, Laura Bond. Laura is a health journalist and health coach, and her techniques are cutting edge and fascinating... vitamin C injections, coffee enemas and infrared saunas are par for the course. Last time we spoke we looked a lot at alternative solutions for better health. This time we look more at the practices you can use to take an already happy and fulfilled life to a new level - finding that extra 5%. Her book and articles are like a guidebook for anyone who wants to find the edge and take their performance levels up a notch. In addition, she's had a crazy 7 or 8 months since we last met, so there was a lot to catch up on. We walked through Soho and recorded as we walked, ending up sitting on a park bench in Golden Square alongside the pigeons, it was, as always with Laura, a lovely and inspiring day. Also coming up, we road-test 'hypertonic drinks' (and accidentally spill them on my trousers - sad times.) Today's podcast is for anyone who's interested in ideas for boosting their energy, vitality and health. Laura's particularly well informed, and her journey since we last spoke is a must listen. Also, 'pets with boobs' make an appearance in today's podcast, and this scary prospect alone should be enough to make you listen. JOIN the Zestology MAILING LIST by going to our website (http://www.tonywrighton.com) Connect with Tony on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/tonywrighton If you love the show, please take a moment to rate & review it on iTunes. We appreciate that so much.  You can also go to http://www.tonywrighton.com for show notes, online streaming, extra bits and the Zestology Challenge.

Not many presenters last 22 years on-air, least of all on commercial radio where tastes of listeners and management can change quickly. Through a multitude of colourful owners, drama and two brand names, the Russ Williams phenomenon survived at the great Golden Square. After 22 years, on 29th May 25, he said his farewells from the station's daytime schedule.

Following a summer dominated by glorious sunshine, Trevor Dann meets with radio futurologist James Cridland and radio consultant Paul Robinson in Golden Square with the Radio Today Programme OB kit, so expect the heavens to open! Accompanied by the gentle patter of rain, the panel discuss the recent acquisition of Absolute Radio by Bauer, small scale DAB stations in Brighton, highlights from RAJAR and what they've been listening to this week (including the Bard of Barnsley's poem to celebrate the achievements of James Alexander Gordon.) Roy Martin brings you the latest news from Radio Today and there's another excellent Radio Moments from David Lloyd. The Radio Today Programme with AudioBoo is usually available every Wednesday. Produced by Jamie Tayler A TDC Production for Radio Today - for more information, please visit trevordann.com Voiceover - emilychiswell.com Music - Euro Star from ostinatomusic.com

Tomorrow is February 29th - it's a Leap Year - when traditionally you get the chance to propose to your fella, and to help you, we're giving the air waves to you and we're setting up the 'Secret Lady Microphone' in Golden Square.