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Matt Hamilton and Jesse Nelson roll into Hour 2 of this Jim-less and Molly-less edition of the show. Matt & Jesse pivot from depressed Badgers fans talk to get excited about the 9-3 Packers who got a commanding 30-17 win against the Dolphins on Thanksgiving. They quickly discuss their thoughts about the Packers' win before looking to this Thursday's game, and rematch, against the 11-1 Lions. Can the Packers still realistically catch up to Detroit atop the NFC North rankings, and where do the Packers stand alongside the 10-2 Vikings and Eagles in the the conference? Jesse and Matt play Green & Gold Blind Rankings, as they assign performance grades of Good, Bad or Meh for three players chosen by Primetime Wollersheim. Primetime then gives his plea for why Saquon Barkley deserves to win MVP during Throwing Stones. Matt and Jesse wrap up on Crosstalk with the Great Dane Huddle. With the Badgers 22-year bowl streak coming to an end after another embarrassing rivalry loss the Golden Gophers, they talk to Rose Bowl champs Tarek Saleh and Derek Engler leading into tonight's show with Barry Alvarez.

On a very special guest-less episode, Matt, Jesse and Andy talk about the fate of the OceanGate Titan, extreme undersea pressure, the curse of the Titanic, whether the Kursk could have been saved, the slightly dubious age-defying claims of a man who lived underwater for several months, the approval of lab-grown meat, Jesse and Andy's latest video game forays, what kangaroos did before they hopped, the problematic platform of RFK Jr. and Matt and Andy's wallaby encounter.

Matt, Jesse and Andy are back together to talk about Matt's wedding, the chess tournament anal bead rumors, how to cheat at roulette, batteries made from crab shells, finding organic matter on Mars, making super hot stuff, breakthroughs in carbon capture, the real story behind Catch Me If You Can's Frank Abagnale and where to find quaaludes these days.

Upcoming Attractions is back…kind of. While Matt is recovering (don't worry he's fine), we'll be putting out a few unreleased episodes until we're ready to go back in action. In this episode, Matt & Jesse talk about The Oscars & Moon Knight, as well as spoiler talks for Morbius, King Richard and X. - TIMECODES - 00:00:00 - Intro - TRAILER DISCUSSIONS -00:04:29 - The Oscars 00:28:47 - Ms. Marvel - FILM DISCUSSIONS - 00:33:35 - Spoiler Warning 00:33:57 - Morbius (Spoilers) 01:01:47 - King Richard (Spoilers) 01:07:56 - X (Spoilers) Follow us on social media for video clips & more: YouTube TikTok Instagram  Facebook Twitter YouTube Clips   

Today Matt is going to interview Jesse DeBenedictis, owner and CEO of Works by JD.  https://worksbyjd.com/

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

For this special episode, Matt & Jesse venture out of their self-inclosed Build-A-Bear tent thanks to the gracious prodding of their new friend and comrade, Pearson, host of the always excellent Coffee with Comrades podcast, in order to imagine alternatives and discuss the theory of “Anti-Anti-Utopia.” While each of us who've seen a Hollywood summer blockbuster, perused Netflix, or owned a dog-eared copy of a Hunger Games novel have sipped from the bitter cup of our Terminal Dystopia Syndrome, few have dared to dream of utopia. As something paradoxically both  dangerous and trivial to the tyrants and influencers who police the status quo, utopia remains largely a pejorative signifier for naive and unrealistic visions of the future. Simply by existing as a concept, utopia's most rude offense is the failure to acquiesce to the myths of our doomed fate built long-ago into the so-called “laws of human nature.” In the era of capitalist realism, the prescribed common sense drives a relentless anti-utopianism, a dangerous ideology that requires a countering through anti-anti-utopianism. So WTF is “Anti-Anti-Utopia” anyways? Coined recently by Kim Stanley Robinson in an essay entitled “Dystopias Now,” the science fiction writer starts by saying, haltingly: “The end of world is over. Now the real work begins.” What would it look like to admit that the world as we know (or knew) it is beyond repair, and that living through the Capitalocene means that we will have to build a better world from within an active apocalypse? In the first half of this two-part conversation, we discuss these terms – Utopia, Dystopia, Anti-Utopia, and Anti-Anti-Utopia – four corners of a semiotic square, a balance of contradictions and counter-forces that together light the way for new beginnings. So whereas Star Trek may have illustrated a far-off future of post-scarcity, it failed to imagine the contours of revolutionary change that would secure – for humanity – a utopia lovingly wrought on Earth. Star Trek instead scripted and drifted toward new but familiar conflicts outside of us, amongst the stars. So perhaps, to boldly go where Utopia might be found, an Anti-Anti-Utopianism is the voyage we must now chart for ourselves, together, here on this fragile planet. Trapped under the dystopian rubble of empire, we deserve all the light that glimmers above us, and so we must reach for it.   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.

“Physical places like cities matter when we want to think about social change,” writes Leslie Kern. So in this third episode in a trilogy on 21st century feminisms, Matt & Jesse move from celebrating feminist manifestoes to exploring feminist geographies with a discussion of Kern's Feminist City: Claiming Space in a Man-Made World. This richly observed mapping of man-made urban spaces expertly juxtaposes pop cultural reflections, academic scholarship and hauntingly personal accounts of a lifetime struggling to claim feminine space in cities, first as a child, then a teenager & college student and later as a mother & scholar. As the feminist geographer Jane Darke once said: “Our cities are patriarchy written in stone, brick, glass and concrete.” In all-too obvious displays of crude masculine power, the towering phallic monuments to capitalist expropriation that define city skylines cast long shadows reminding us all that this is a man's world. From 12th century churches, to 20th century office towers, and from Beverly Hills mansions to billionaire's row penthouses—cities are monuments to myth-making, extraction, and exploitation—making concrete structures out of the poisoned logics of religion, capitalism, and celebrity. The world is built by and for patriarchy, and it's the “cosmic background radiation” of white, male, cis-hetero, and able-bodied privileges that allows men to coast through life on cruise control, never burdened by the realities of other people's lives. Free from the constant nagging fear of sexual violence lurking around every public and private corner, men not only enjoy the privilege of designing our global cities, but they're also free to explore them with unrestrained liberty. The geography of the city demonstrates clearly that the maintenance of capitalism is contingent upon an ever-present threat of violence, and primarily on gender-based violence. The sustained anxieties perpetuated by patriarchy and white supremacy are manifest not only in the violence enacted through policing and policy making, but also in the shape of our urban environments. So to transform the city, we must look beyond simply “gender-mainstreaming” city planning and vacuous liberal pleas for symbolic reforms. As Kern writes, “once we begin to see how the city is set up to sustain a particular way of organizing society—across gender, race, sexuality, and more—we can start to look for new possibilities.” So we must start to look for those possibilities to decommodify life and democratize society. Because the reality is, without challenging the notion of private property, we aren't challenging the patriarchy. Private property and the enclosure of land is the conscription of patriarchy on the planet. To demolish this structural domination and transform our cities into environments that are open, safe, and free for everyone, we must once and for all—abolish the motherfucking cost of living.    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

The Dumpster Fire of 2020 is over, but the song remains the same: capitalism, white supremacy and patriarchy rage on in a celebrity-fueled clusterfuck of mass death and ecological collapse. And so it begins: A new calendar unfurls like a blanket to smother or console our traumatized lives. The New Year is a time when Christmas decorations get wanly huffed into garage boxes and when people busy themselves by hatching plans for privatized notions of change; some post their resolutions publicly on social media, while others whisper theirs sheepishly to friends and lovers, almost all of which get thwarted by the exhaustion, depression, and despair of life in this capitalist inferno. But what if real change in our personal lives is contingent upon the collective emancipation of all of us? Let's face it: each and every year comes with the same urgent imperative: everything must change. But yet, too much is expected to come from within ourselves for ourselves. And our relationship with time is too passive. Upon any year that passes, we too often say that this 12-month cycle did us wrong, did a bad thing, crushed our diaphanous dreams to shards of amber. But what if a year was just a random collection of days, and “2021” is only worthy of its name if it inspires us to abolish what's unjust and hurts us all? This year, unlike past furtive ones, we must work collectively toward a global socialist revolution against the dark, driving engine of capitalism, which forever churns out newer hierarchies to grind against older, more ancient ones. We must start anew with a struggle that confronts the onslaught of climate chaos propelled by a capitalist death-cult. So to burst forth in this New Year, The Future Is A Mixtape humbly offers our version of a double-album. In this episode, Jesse will be flying solo by reading To Change Everything: An Anarchist Appeal from CrimethInc, an ex-worker collective that surfaced out of Olympia, Washington, more than two decades ago. Immediately following the reading, the next episode contains Matt & Jesse's conversation about this eminently accessible anarchist manifesto. This international network of anonymous, aspiring revolutionaries declares that we should be free to direct our limitless potential on our own terms, and that no government, market, ideology or sky-daddy should be able to tell us what our lives must be; and that, finally, the world should be arranged by self-determination and mutual aid, just as water from a lake is best collected from two hands rather than one.    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

On the latest episode of American Slacker hosts Matt and Jesse discuss this week’s bizarre news including the House of Representatives voting on a bill to end marijuana criminalization, dick shaped decorations from around the world, Canadian bottled meats, foot wrecking record breaking, Mr. Clean’s Thailand drug operation, a skin related science breakthrough and the pick for Funny Clip of the Week. Then the guys suggest shows worth watching including HBO’s How to.. with John Wilson and the Netflix series The Queen’s Gambit. The show wraps up with a new game called Categories:Face/Off, with Matt & Jesse going one on one in a holiday themed battle of the minds. Promos Dudes with Brews on a Porch Cartoon Dumpster Dive   Visit our sponsors and use these codes to support American Slacker Podcast Dango Products: use code “Slacker” at https://www.dangoproducts.com/ Manscaped: use code “Slackers” at https://www.manscaped.com/ Hemp-CBD: use code “Slacker” at https://www.hemp-cbd.com/ Seat Giant: use code “Slacker” at https://www.seatgiant.com/ Check out the American Slacker Podcast Website, Facebook Page, American Slackers Group, Instagram, Youtube and Twitter.  To become a Patron of the show head over to Patreon.com/AmericanSlackerpodcast The song “American Slacker” provided by Haverland

Dejected and defeated—by the slimmest of electoral margins—Donald J. Trump spent his post-election nightmare hiding at a Washington golf club straddling between swings of his Titleist 910D2 Driver and plans for a bitter campaign of denials, recriminations and lawsuits. Having narrowly snatched victory out of the jaws of their own defeat, McLiberals celebrate the vanquishment of America's cosplay fascist and promise to “save the soul of America” by bringing “decency and compassion to The White House”—a castle built by the ruthless exploitation of African slaves. Grazing through the deforested wasteland of our celebrity-food-chain media-scape, Blue-State Brunchers raise their champagne flutes to toasts of a “return to normal” on social media, while millions of desperate Americans remain unfed, unhoused, and unloved. Covid-19, like a knife that never stops, slashes into wounds already open. In the words of Antonio Gramsci: “The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born: now is the time of monsters.” So what must be done to bring a new world to life? While electoral politics should not be simply ignored or discarded, we must recognize that its feckless attachments to spectacle at the expense of direct democracy leave the world more disfigured than transformed. Voting is, ultimately, the excrement end of social change. It's a sign of where power turns to shit: sometimes fertilizing gardens of future flowers; but more often than not, it ends up poisoning our local water systems (e.g. Flint, Michigan). Real democracy requires deliberation: with strangers in the streets, with neighbors on the corner, with colleagues in the workplace, and at home with family & friends. More than just an American obsession with the reality-show dumpster fire of 45, the world has for decades suffered from a sick addiction to Presidential politics, a myopic deference to the almighty power of a single individual. Instead, what we desperately need is real democracy. So, for this episode, Matt & Jesse will consider practical solutions that can finally end the shit-parade of legalized bribery and pay-to-play campaigning that comprise electoral politics as we know it. Beyond the long list of obvious and necessary reforms (including abolition of the electoral college, public financing, and universal suffrage) lies the unearthing of a long-forgotten central pillar of democracy: legislative appointment by lottery. Sortition, or the drawing of lots, is a democratic tool as old as the notion of democracy itself, and may be a key to designing an egalitarian future. Democracy is a fragile, morpheus dream. And ultimately, democracy is a wish we release into the air like a question mark or a song; some sounds dissipate quickly, but others echo through the forest into the ears of others. As Mark Fisher once wrote, “The long dark night of the end of history has to be grasped as an enormous opportunity. The tiniest event can tear a hole in the grey curtain of reaction which has marked the horizons of possibility under capitalist realism. From a situation in which nothing can happen, suddenly anything is possible again.”   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

On the latest episode of American Slacker hosts Matt & Jesse talk with Shelby & Flo about their recent stay at former insane asylum turned Henry Hotel in Buffalo, New York. They discuss how the terrifying three night stay left them shaken, believing that there is something strange happening at the upscale resort. Mysterious electrical disturbances, shadowy arms reaching through curtains and a self folding blanket are only some of the experiences the two recount from their stay on this episode.   Promos by Cartoon Dumpster Dive Brothers Binge   Visit our sponsors and use these codes to support American Slacker Podcast Dango Products: use code “Slacker” at https://www.dangoproducts.com/ Manscaped: use code “Slackers” at https://www.manscaped.com/ Hemp-CBD: use code “Slacker” at https://www.hemp-cbd.com/ Seat Giant: use code “Slacker” at https://www.seatgiant.com/ Check out the American Slacker Podcast Website, Facebook Page, American Slackers Group, Instagram, Youtube and Twitter.    To become a Patron of the show head over to Patreon.com/AmericanSlackerpodcast The song “American Slacker” provided by Haverland

On the latest episode of American Slacker hosts Matt & Jesse talk with Michael Jubie, owner of Headless Horseman Hayrides and Haunted Houses in Ulster Park, New York. He tells the guys about how the attraction started, the growth over the years, his love of Halloween and dealing with the changes this year has thrown their way.   Check out & follow Headless Horseman Hayrides and Haunted Houses online Website Instagram Facebook Twitter   Visit our sponsors and use these codes to support American Slacker Podcast Dango Products: use code “Slacker” at https://www.dangoproducts.com/ Manscaped: use code “Slackers” at https://www.manscaped.com/ Hemp-CBD: use code “Slacker” at https://www.hemp-cbd.com/ Seat Giant: use code “Slacker” at https://www.seatgiant.com/ Check out the American Slacker Podcast Website, Facebook Page, American Slackers Group, Instagram, Youtube and Twitter.    To become a Patron of the show head over to Patreon.com/AmericanSlackerpodcast The song “American Slacker” provided by Haverland

On the latest episode of American Slacker hosts Matt & Jesse talk about everything horror with Steve & Chris of the Lost Signals Podcast. The guys suggest films to check out for the Halloween season, Jesse goes over the movies he’s watched doing his #31for31 list and they reveal some little known facts about your favorite scary flicks. Promos by Murderous Minors: Killer Kids Beforewords Visit our sponsors and use these codes to support American Slacker Podcast Dango Products: use code “Slacker” at https://www.dangoproducts.com/ Manscaped: use code “Slackers” at https://www.manscaped.com/ Hemp-CBD: use code “Slacker” at https://www.hemp-cbd.com/ Seat Giant: use code “Slacker” at https://www.seatgiant.com/ Check out the American Slacker Podcast Website, Facebook Page, American Slackers Group, Instagram, Youtube and Twitter.  To become a Patron of the show head over to Patreon.com/AmericanSlackerpodcast The song “American Slacker” provided by Haverland

For this episode, Matt & Jesse build upon their prior discussion (Episode 026) of Erik Olin Wright's posthumous book, How to Be an Anticapitalist in the 21st Century, by mapping out how we might best choreograph the dance steps in making revolution fully realized. Wright's historically magnificent project of delineating the internal contradictions of class in America (and the world over) made him the most important Marxist in Sociology post-WWII. After his mapping project of class was completed, the intellectual turned his attention in the latter half of his career to seeing how we might build real utopias in the here and now – after both the failure of statist “proletarian” parties and the success of neoliberalism's onslaught of rapacious transnational capital, where everything could be outsourced or automated, and where labor was left emaciated, fragmented, and unconscious of its own exploitation. While Wright's final work provided an excellent diagramming of the strategic logic of Eroding Capitalism, he never outlined how we might orchestrate these various movements on the playing field of global capital in order to build a symphony of revolution. Increasingly, the triumphant narrative that markets “heal the boo-boos” seems ever-less persuasive as capitalism reveals itself to be a harm-grinder against humanity and our desiccated biosphere. Matt will discuss what he argues is our most powerful anticapitalist wedge issue - money in politics, and Jesse will offer his Theory of Emancipatory Struggle along with the strategic directions of The Anticapitalist Compass. In closing, Jesse & Matt will examine how converging emancipatory movements joining in a chorus of revolution can build toward the first glimmers of The Utopian Sphere. The time has come to not only announce that “a better world is possible,” but to detail the choreography of transcending capitalism once and for all. We must make the future ourselves, collectively, and not let the future be made by an oligarchy that seeds DeathCults in its wake.   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

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

On this episode, Jesse and Matt dive into Erik Olin Wright's posthumous work on imagining practical utopias, entitled How to Be an Anticapitalist in the Twenty-First Century, which was published in the fall of 2019—just six months after the author's untimely death from cancer. Our co-hosts will talk about Erik Olin Wright's place in keeping the candle of socialism burning during its most bleak period: from Ronald Reagan's Mourning in AmeriKKKa—at the onset of the 1980s—to the dawn of the new millennium, when the “Battle in Seattle” signified the reformation of the Left, creating the contours for the wild new imaginings of Occupy Wall Street and the liberation struggles of a new century. Matt & Jesse will also converse briefly about Wright's highly collaborative Real Utopias Project (published by Verso Books) and his magnum opus, Envisioning Real Utopias (2010), the massive and daunting size of which moved the Marxist Sociologist to create a tighter, leaner version that would be of practical use to activists and organizers the world over. Questions to be formed and answered during the conversation: What are the merits of the author's claims? What are the weaknesses of this very important book? And finally, what are the truly transcendent aspects of Wright's ideas that deserve placement as key tracks for our mixtape of the future? As Antonio Gramsci famously said, dreamers and fighters for a better world must carry forth with a “pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will.” Less well known is Wright's gentle retort that to survive the 21st century, we will also need “a bit more optimism of the intellect” too.    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

To build a better mixtape for the future, Matt & Jesse transition from diagramming how the George Floyd uprisings can move beyond defunding the police (and abolishing it entirely), and instead look at how this movement could lead to larger more long-term transformations. The demand first met must include a long-sought Truth & Reckoning Commission, which has not only happened in South Africa (and more recently Canada), but has occurred in 41 other nations and counting—all of which shows how this is not a dancing unicorn demand in a nation that largely ignores demands from below; there is a vital and visceral need for this commission to surface in the here and now. Our co-hosts will then talk about how this Commission can ramp up to justly deserved reparations for America's Twin Sins: the enslavement and genocide of Native & Black folks during the era of settler-colonialism, the lawfare and warfare of Jim Crow and the continued racist sadism of the State as COVID-19 ravages Black & Native communities across a country. While many Americans are faced with celebrating this 4th of July without fireworks or freedom, Jesse & Matt acknowledge how white folks' entrapment in their homes has built a secret solidarity with the lives of African Americans, who have been geographically and economically trapped by centuries of racial capitalism, and who have neither felt freedom nor fireworks in a nation-state that denies their right to breathe or exist. And lastly, money—our shared, mass hallucination—will be questioned and reimagined in order to create a new understanding of what “value” must include, so that we can firmly seed a future of what's so rightly deserved. To stand up, we must fight back; as the Black Communist & poet, Claude McKay, once wrote: “If we must die, let it not be like hogs / Hunted and penned in an inglorious spot [. . .] we'll face the murderous, cowardly pack, / Pressed to the wall, dying, but fighting back!”   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

On this episode of The Future Is A Mixtape, Matt & Jesse deepen their discussion on the bad, bad behavior of The Misfit 12 by branching beyond myth-busting to diagram how we might abolish the police in strategically smart and tactical ways. The central core myths of what have kept them in power so long, as well as the brutal costs they create in their wake, go far beyond the victims, family members and the beloved community at large; even when we don't see the sun from seashore, The Carceral State's cloud-eyes peak over the financial aid packages of college students, monitor truancies of 12-year old Black children from their buses to their schools, strip-search working-class girls and check the inside of our souls without our consent. So to seize the means to abolish the police, how do we “defund, disarm, dismantle?” Where do we start? In what order? Or is it better for us to think about leverage-points than simple-step chronology? Our co-hosts will talk about the “low hanging fruit” of getting cop-killers and cop-gropers out of our K-12 system, freezing—then melting—police budgets and pouring that money into The Golden Square: Food, Shelter, Healthcare & Education. Jesse & Matt will also talk about how this realization of abolishing the police—amid the societal collapse of COVID-19—allows for new terrain struggles for Universal Basic Income & Medicare for All to make it into the Mixtape of the Now. And finally, they will suggest why this might be the right type of righteous storm to blow down the trap-house of capitalism, cleansing the Earth of its Visigoths and Goldman-Sachs ghouls, so we can return to our mother, Freedom—the same mother George cried out for. Only when we strip property definitions from our bodies, can we begin to decommodify the Earth's ecology and get on that Rainbow Light of the Utopian Sphere.    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

After a long hiatus from The Future Is a Mixtape, Jesse & Matt return to a more battered and broken world, whose lungs throb with phlegm while a new world is breathing hard and fast, demanding to be born. For this episode, our co-hosts discuss how the Old World Tragedy of Police Brutality is ripping into the New World Tragedy of COVID-19, and why these clashing tragedies have made the Old World no longer tolerable among an increasingly young, queer, multiracial, working class populace who have “nothing left to lose but their chains.” While student debt, climate chaos, unemployment and the profit-seeking predations of private healthcare savage human solidarity, we hide in our homes, we question, dream, yearn, and now Americans are taking to the streets in the greatest uprising since 1968. What then must be done? In order to fully embrace a future of the Utopian Sphere, we must dismantle the twin seduction-myths that the police “protect us” and “prevent crime” (when they appear largely after the crime). Further still, we must realize that an institution designed for slave patrols and anti-union thuggery can no longer live in our New World of the Mixtape. As the Jim Crow adage goes, this “blue by day, white by night” institution has been—and will always be—a racist vector of domination, making any glorious and glowing future or radical liberation impossible. So this loaded gun of Patriarchy must lose its bullets and be melted by fire. Matt & Jesse chart a path on how we might best do that, while more importantly stepping back and listening in, as the Movement for Black Lives traces the first etchings of Police Abolishment.   Comprehensive show notes can be found at thefutureisamixtape.com Feel Free to Contact Jesse & Matt on the Following Spaces & Places: thefutureisamixtape@gmail.comFacebook Twitter Instagram

If your business is in trouble, and you fail to meet your obligations with your bank, you could face having your account moved to a workout banker. So, how does that change your relationship with your bank. Phil Dobbie talks to Matt Jesse in this edition of the Vantage Performance Podcast. Matt has 25 years’ experience in the turnaround industry – before joining Vantage Performance he was a workout banker with a major Australian bank. He describes what will be expected of you and how to ensure the relationship gets off on the right footing.

The guys are back this week with more FIFA World Cup talk. Christian Lake joins the guys again as they send their final predictions for the semifinals and quarterfinals, as well as pick their choices for the final. Rohan Sitaram joins Matt & Jesse on the second half to talk NBA Free Agency.

The guys shift gears and focus in on the upcoming FIFA World Cup. Matt & Jesse are joined by soccer guru Christian Lake, together they give their previews & predictions on group stages, knockout stages, and pick their winners. 

With Memorial Day weekend fast approaching, Matt & Jesse tackle their first ever We Watch Sports Podcast featuring NBA superfan: Rohan Sitaram. The guys talk NBA Conference Finals, Top 5 NFL QBs, upcoming NFL QBs, and do Quick Hits to wrap up Episode 1.

Beyond Blade Runners and Replicants, there must be a place “Over the Rainbow” for us to exist in solidarity and equanimity. And certainly, the 21st Century hovering above us should be a cause for hope, not despair; yet even with this new century being no way near its quartermark, it's already given us a planet wheezing from ecological crisis-to-crisis, where an untenable economic system of neo-feudalism ravages plants and animals, as well as the rights of those we love (or should love). In the Terror & Twilight of Our Broken Age, what ideology best speaks and acts from a place made from compassion and love? Instead of passively looking at the new century that hangs in the sky, blinking obliquely above us, we should instead reorganize our motions to The North Star of Human Decency, namely that of Anarchy. For this 21st episode of The Future Is A Mixtape, Matt & Jesse will finally come out of the “political closet” and show some raw & real skin: they are both Anarchists Without Adjectives, and they believe that this ideology of love is the only practical solution to the world's byzantine disorders, fraught with confusion, warbling on without a just antidote. In their most personal and revealing podcast since the show's first episode, Jesse & Matt explore their disparate journeys to humanity's greatest romance, Anarchy; they will describe its origin story, its turbulent relationship with authoritarian communists and how this political philosophy is not only the most idealist of ideologies, but also why it's the only one which can ride inside us--whispering out “hope” for a utopian future. HELPFUL RESOURCE GUIDES ABOUT ANARCHY: The Most Popularly Cited and Shared Introduction to Anarchy: David Graeber's “Are You an Anarchist? The Answer Might Surprise You?!” Thomas Giovanni in the Black Rose Anarchist Confederation: “Who Are the Anarchists and What Is Anarchism?” Have More Specific Questions? Go to An Anarchist FAQ from The Anarchist FAQ Editorial Collective. The Anarchist Library: A Deep Database and Archive of Out-of-Print & Hard-to-Find Articles, Books, Speeches and Interviews on Anarchy America's Legendary AK Press, Which Runs as a Worker-Cooperative Since 1990, and Publishes Important as well as Far Reaching Works of Political Theory, Journalism, Fiction and Non-Fiction Works. Freedom: The Oldest (& Once Longest Running) Anarchist Newspaper in Print (1886-2014) Get a ‘Memorial Copy' of Freedom's Last Print Issue for February/March 2014 KEY FIGURES & WORKS ON ANARCHISM: Lao Tzu (604 BC - 501 BC) → Most Important Work On Early Notions Anarchy: Tao Te Ching Chuang Tzu (370 BC - 287 BC) → Most Important Work On Early Notions Anarchy: The Book of Chuang TzuGerard Winstanley (1609-1676) → Most Important Work On Early (Western Notions of) Anarchy: The New Law of Righteousness (1649) William Godwin (1756-1836) → Most Important Work On Early (Western Notions of) Anarchy: Enquiry Concerning Political Justice (1793) Max Stirner (1806-1856) → Most Important Work On Anarchy: The Ego and His Own: The Case of the Individual Against Authority (1844) Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (1809-1865) → Most Important Work On Anarchy: What Is Property? An Inquiry into the Principle of Right and of Government (1840) Mikhail Bakunin (1814-1876) → Most Important Work On Anarchy: God and the State (1882) Peter Kropotkin (1842-1921) → Most Important Works On Anarchy: The Conquest of Bread (1892) & Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution (1902) Emma Goldman (1869-1940) → Most Important Work On Anarchy: Living My Life (1931) David Graeber (1961 & Still Kicking) → Most Important Works On Anarchy: Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology (2004) & The Democracy Project: A History, A Crisis, A Movement (2013) MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE: Judy Garland's “Over the Rainbow” & Where to Watch the Legendary Film in All of Its Proto-Camp Glory The Legendary Theme Song for the Reading Rainbow & Where to Watch the Show in All of Its Kid-Camp Fury Anarchists and Molotov Cocktails! Why Do Black Lives Matter? Why Do Comrades Lives Matter? Because the Police Are Still Swinging Butcher-Batons and Gatling-Guns Against People's Heads: Here, Here, Here, Here, Here and Lastly Sophia Wilansky--a Hero of the Dakota Pipeline Protest--Finally Speaks Out Here. The Rectum & The Shithole of the State Jesse Herring: “Anarchy is a dream . . . Anarchy is a beautiful dream. Anarchy is the North Star of Human Decency” Ursula K. Le Guin's Most Famous Quote: “What is an anarchist? One who, choosing, accepts the responsibility of choice.” What Is Anarcho-Primitivism? A Working Primer (However, if you want a popular conception of the idea, you can watch this popular piece of “ManArchy.” If you want the documentary version, you can watch this instead. Or--fuck all--if you just want a visual sight-gag of Anarcho-Primitivism, you can watch this ode to pre-millennium dread.) The Creators of Novara Radio, Aaron Bastani and James Butler, Discuss the Ideas of Anarchism in This Podcast: “What Is Libertarian Communism?” Ursula K. Le Guin's Official Website & Her Blog MusingsUrsula K. Le Guin's Career-Defining Magnum Opus: The Dispossessed (1974) The New Yorker: Julie Phillip's “The Fantastic Ursula K. Le Guin” Structo Magazine: Euan Monaghan's Interview with Ursula K. Le Guin: “Ursula K. Le Guin on Racism, Anarchy and Hearing Her Characters Speak” (2015) The Anarchist Library: “Anarchism and Taoism” A Working Biography of Paul Goodman: an American Novelist, Playwright, Poet, Essayist, Psychotherapist and Anarchist Philosopher A History of Revolutionary Catalonia in Libcom: “1936-1939: The Spanish Civil War and Revolution” A Summary of The Dispossessed in Wikipedia Ursula K. Le Guin's Description of “The Wall” in in the opening paragraph of The Dispossessed:“There was a wall. It did not look important. It was built of uncut rocks roughly mortared. An adult could look right over it, and even a child could climb it. Where it crossed the roadway, instead of having a gate it degenerated into mere geometry, a line, an idea of boundary. But the idea was real. It was important. For seven generations there had been nothing in the world more important than that wall. Like all walls it was ambiguous, two-faced. What was inside it and what was outside it depended upon which side of it you were on.” An Online Interview with Ursula K. Le Guin, Generated from Questions by Readers of The Guardian: “Chronicles of Earthsea” The Rules of Being a Mormon in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (or Mormon Church) In Ask Gramps: “Do I Need to Confess Masturbation to My [LDS] Baptist?” The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints: “Why and What Do I Need to Confess to My Bishop?” {Which Basically Avoids Mentioning All the Sex and Dirty Parts in Case Readers Become Too Inspired} Catholic Online: “A Guide to Confession” Terry Eagleton in The Chronicle of Higher Education: “In Praise of Marx” Karl Marx's Capital: Volume 1: A Critique of Political Economy (Originally Published in 1867; This Was Translated & Reprinted in 1992) David Harvey: A Companion to Karl Marx's Capital (2010) Louis Menand in The New Yorker: “Karl Marx, Yesterday and Today” Mary Gabriel's Love and Capital: Karl and Jenny Marx and the Birth of a Revolution (2011) Rachel Holmes' Eleanor Marx: A Life (2015) Ralph Nader's Most Notable Works:   Breaking Through Power: It's Easier Than We Think (2016) The Seventeen Solutions: Bold Ideas for Our American Future (2012) “Only the Super-Rich Can Save Us”: A Novel (2011) A Fantastic Essay on Barack Obama's Patina-Presidency: “The Gap Between Rhetoric and Action: The Failed Foreign Policy of Barack Obama” Matthew Snyder's Ph.D. Dissertation: Welcome to the Suck: The Film and Media Phantasm's of The Gulf War (2008) Noam Chomsky's Most Notable Works on Politics & Anarchy: On Anarchism (2013) Who Rules the World? (2016) Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of Mass Media (1988; 2002) Requiem for the American Dream: The 10 Principles of Concentration and Power (2017) On Language: Chomsky's Classic Works Language and Responsibility and Reflections on Language in One Volume (1998) Failed States: The Abuse of Power and the Assault on Democracy (2007) Understanding Power: The Indispensible Chomsky (2002) The Anarchist Library: Workers' Solidarity Federation's “History of the Anarchist-Syndicalist Trade Union” The Anarchist Library: Rudolph Rocker on Anarchism and Anarcho-Syndicalism in “The Reproduction of Daily Life” Mikhail Bakunin, The Founder of Modern Anarchism: Mark Leier's Bakunin: The Creative Passion (2009) America's Most Famous Anarchist & Greatest Dissident; as Seen in Candace Falk's Love, Anarchy & Emma Goldman (1990), and Also in Kevin and Paul Avrich's Sasha and Emma: The Anarchist Odyssey of Alexander Berkman and Emma Goldman (2012) Michael Albert, the co-founder of Participatory Economics (Parecon): as Seen in the Graphic Novel-ization Parecon: Sean Michael Wilson and Carl Thomspon's Parecomic: Michael Albert and the Story of Participatory Economics (2013) The Big Think: “Do Scientists Have a Special Responsibility to Engage in Political Advocacy?” Michael Albert's Parecon: Life After Capitalism (2003) & Practical Utopia: Strategies for a Desirable Society (KAIROS) (2017) Andrew Anthony in The Guardian: “Ex-diplomat Carne Ross: The Case for Anarchism” IMDb: John Archer and Clara Glynn's The Accidental Anarchist (About Carne Ross' Epiphany Toward Anarchy After Becoming Disillusioned of Serving State Power) Biola Magazine: “What Are the Key Difference Between Mormonism and Christianity?” Jehovah's Witnesses (JW.org): “What Happens at a Kingdom Hall?” Reddit: “How to Make Molotov Cocktails”  (!!!) David Graeber's Most Famous Essay on Anarchism: “Are You an Anarchist? The Answer Might Surprise You?!” The Anarchist Library: “An Anarchist FAQ” Bakunin on Karl Marx's Idea of Socialism Within the State: “A dictatorship of the proletariat is still a dictatorship.” The Anarchist Library: Wayne Price's “In Defense of Bakunin and Anarchism” (Responses to Herb Gamberg's Attacks on Anarchism) The First International (AKA the International Workingmen's Association) The Socialist International David Harvey's Most Recent Work: Marx, Capital, and the Madness of Economic Reason (2017) David Graeber's Idea of Baseline Communism Is Fully Explored in His Most Important Work: Debt: The First 5,000 Years. Lord of the Rings & Gandalf's Anxiety & Terror of the Rings Corrupting Powers: “Don't Tempt Me Frodo!” Jonathan Franzen About Those Facebook “likes” in The New York Times: “Liking is for Cowards. Go for What Hurts.” Jim Dwyer's Article on Marina Abramovic's Art Project to Stare at People, Eye-to-Eye, Twenty Minutes Each for Hours and Hours; As Explored in The New York Times: “Confronting a Stranger, for Art” Buzzfeed: “Watch Six Pairs Stare Into Each Others' Eyes as a Love Experiment” The Guardian: “Literary Fiction Readers Understand Others' Emotions Better, Study Finds” Annie Murphy Paul in Time Magazine: “Reading Literature Makes Us Smarter and Nicer” Adam Gopnik Explores the Paris Commune in The New Yorker: “The Fires of Paris” The Anarchist Library: Murray Bookchin's “To Remember Spain: The Anarchist and Syndicalist Revolution of 1936” Noted Correction: Matthew incorrectly stated that members of Congress receive lifetime pension after only being in office one term (two years); In actuality, members of congress receive pension after five years (but Senators do get pensions after just one term of six years). For more information on this, go to FactCheck.org's article on the subject. Margaret Atwood's Interview on Canada's Q TV Where She Discusses Her Creation of God's Gardeners in The Year of the Flood (2009) & How Environmental Activists Must Make Friends with the Religious for a Truly Big Tent Movement to Save the Planet; Also Talks About the Split Between Christian Fundamentalists & Environmental Christians Who View Humans as Stewards of the Earth. Jessica Alexander in The Atlantic: “America's Insensitive Children?” {How Schools in Denmark Teach Students Empathy From a Young Age} Kevin Carson in Center for a Stateless Society: “Libertarian-splaining to the Poor” Learning About Worker Cooperatives: A Working Definition from the Canadian Worker Co-Op Federation Alana Semuels in The Atlantic: “Worker-Owned Cooperatives: What Are They?” National Community Land Trust Network: An FAQ About Community Land Trusts Mikhail Bakunin: “To revolt is a natural tendency of life. Even a worm turns against the foot that crushes it. In general, the vitality and relative dignity of an animal can be measured by the intensity of its instinct to revolt.” {For More Quotes by Bakunin, Hit Up His Wikiquote} The Future Is A Mixtape's First Three Episodes Exploring The Poison Pyramid: What Jesse Calls An Unconsciously Inspired Anarchist Idea-Shape: Episode 001: The Desire For Certainty: On the Terrifying Costs of Religious Tyranny Upon Humanity Episode 002: The Invisible Hand: Explores the Death-Dealing Nature of Capitalism Episode 003: Star-Fuckers: Concerns Our Toxic Relationship to the Cult of Celebrity-Worship Mikhail Bakunin's Quote on God as a Bad Boss: "A Boss in Heaven is the best excuse for a boss on earth, therefore If God did exist, he would have to be abolished.” Vivir la utopía: Juan A. Gamera's Documentary on the Anarchist Revolution in Catalonia: Living Utopia (1997) Peter Kropotkin's The Conquest of Bread (1892: 2017 Edition Translated by Jonathan-David Jackson) Utopia As Seen George Orwell's Homage to Catalonia Where He Describes How Everyday Workers Were in the Saddle of the 1936 Revolution: "The Anarchists were still in virtual control of Catalonia and the revolution was still in full swing. To anyone who had been there since the beginning it probably seemed even in December or January that the revolutionary period was ending; but when one came straight from England the aspect of Barcelona was something startling and overwhelming. It was the first time that I had ever been in a town where the working class was in the saddle." Rebecca Solnit's A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster (2009) Why is it that the German Air-Bombings during WWII (The Blitz) caused suicide rates to plummet so dramatically? British scientists discover the reason as seen in The Telegraph's article: “Terror Attacks Cause Drop in Suicide Rates as They Invoke Blitz Spirit” PBS NewsHour: “Sebastian Junger's Tribe Examines Loyalty, Belonging and the Quest for Meaning” How Spending $25 on Others (Instead of Keeping It for Yourself) Creates More Happiness; as Seen in The New Republic Interview with Scientists: “Want to Be Happy? Stop Being Cheap!” Time Magazine: “Do We Need $75,000 a Year to Be Happy?” The US Military-Industrial-Complex: $700 Billion on Murder and Machinery: Alex Emmons in The Intercept: “The Senate's Military Spending Increase Alone Is Enough to Make Public College Free” Armistead Maupin: “There is your biological family and then your logical family.” As Seen in His Autobiography, Logical Family: A Memoir Is Kamala Harris America's Future President or Just Another Transactional Politician Buried in Corporate Money? Universal Basic Income (UBI) or Universal Basic Dividend (UBD)? Matthew Bruenig's Essay-Report: “How Norway's State Manages Its Ownership Of Companies” (From the People's Policy Project) Michael Zannettis in The People's Policy Project: “Why Americans Are Going to Love Single Payer” Alan Moore's Most Important Works, Both Past and Present: Watchman (Released in 1986-87; Reprinted 2014) V for Vendetta (Released in 1989; Reprinted in 2008 Jerusalem: A Novel (Hardback Release: 2016 & It's 1280 Pages!) From Hell (2004) When V for Vendetta was published it was seen as an SF allegory for Margaret Thatcher's World Gone Mad; As Seen in George Monbiot's Excellent Essay in The Guardian: “Neoliberalism -- the Ideology at the Root of All Our Problems” But There's A World We Can Have from the Anarchist Principles of Mutual Aid, Solidarity and Community Wealth: Marcin Jakubowski's Open Source Ecology Project & It's Philosophy The Making of “America's Most Radical City” as Explored with the Founding of Cooperation Jackson; Jackson's History of This Struggle Is Also Explored in Ajamu Nangwaya & Kali Akuno's Book  Jackson Rising (2017) 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

For this episode of The Future Is A Mixtape, Jesse & Matt discuss the slow, spiral reckoning of Ridley Scott's much-celebrated and increasingly influential film Blade Runner, whose long and winding road lead to a sequel, Blade Runner 2049. While detractors of the original film might feel they're viewing a sexy-time noir featuring little more than robots and porn-jazz, for the entranced, the film's hypnotic imagery and ruminations on universal themes like humanness, memory and belonging still keep many cineaste-hearts aflutter. After the blockbuster ascendency the Star Wars franchise and SF's increasing maturation as a cinematic genre, Ridley Scott's formerly “one-off” was released in 1982, and quickly disappeared at the box office and inside film critics' confused typewriters. However, unbeknownst to many, this leftover lasagna turned into the cult film of cult films. Blade Runner would later grow an organic fanbase from Arty Nerds, Noir Addicts and Cyberpunks, all of whom would despoil their underoos over spinners, unicorn origami and whether Deckard was or wasn't a replicant. Seeing blinking cash-registers in their eyes, Hollywood producers sought out Denis Villeneuve as their architect to extend the franchise with Blade Runner 2049. Your meta-guidance-counselors, Matt & Jesse, will provide a spoiler-bonanza of both films, weigh out Villeneuve's sense of cinema, and examine how the sequel's repeater bleakness short-circuits better questions and ideas. The co-hosts will finally imagine how this film might be retrofitted or retold, narratively speaking, and roust its viewers into utopian dream-scaping. Mentioned In This Episode: Opening Music Salvo: White Zombie's “More Human Than Human” from Their Last Album Astro-Creep: 2000 – Songs of Love, Destruction and Other Synthetic Delusions of the Electric Head (1995) Ridley Scott's Blade Runner: The Final Cut (Edition 2007) The Movie Art of Syd Mead: Visual Futurist Denis Villeneuve's Blade Runner 2049 (Pre-Order) The Art and Soul of Blade Runner: A Visual Art Book Podcasts on Blade Runner 2049 (That May Or May Not Have Influenced Our Podcast): Chris Ryan and Andy Greenwald's Podcast The Watch, Which Features Sam Esmail and a Discussion on Blade Runner 2049 and Mr. Robot Slate's Podcast Spoiler Specials About Blade Runner 2049, Which Features Dana Stevens, Forrest Wickman and Sam Adams The Director's Cut Podcast: Featuring Rian Johnson Interviewing Denis Villeneuve and His Critically Acclaimed Blade Runner 2049 The Collider Podcast: Episode 110 - Blade Runner 2049 Featuring Hosts Adam Chitwood and Matt Goldberg The Original Trailer for Ridley Scott's Blade Runner (1982) The Official Trailer for Denis Villeneuve's Blade Runner 2049 Time Magazine: “Director Denis Villeneuve Proved to Us He Love Blade Runner More Than Anybody” The Three Short Films Set Between Blade Runner and Blade Runner 2049: Blade Runner 2049 - “2036: Nexus Dawn” Blade Runner 2049 - “2048: Nowhere to Run” Blade Runner 2049 - “Black Out 2022” Ben Child in The Guardian: “Blade Runner 2049: Five Things We Learned from the Shorts” Jason Sondhi in Best Short of the Week: “Hollywood's Embrace of the Short Film Tie-In” Clickhole: “Culture Shock: Everything You Need to Know About Blade Runner” Documentaries About the Original Blade Runner: Channel 4: On the Edge of Blade Runner (Featured on YouTube) Dangerous Days: Making Blade Runner (Found in Most DVDs/Blu-rays of the the 1982 Film) BFI Film Classics: Scott Bukatman's Blade Runner Instagram: “Blade Runner Reality” Devon Maloney in Wired: “Blade Runner 2049's Politics Aren't That Futuristic” Marie Claire: “These Three Women Are About to Make Sci-Fi History” Angelica Jade Bastién in Vulture: “Why Don't Dystopia's Know How to Talk About Race? Darryl Hannah's Background in Gymnastics Helped in a Key Scene with Blade Runner, But She Still Had a Male Gymnast Stunt Double in a Scary Sequence. The Important Themes and Motifs of Blade Runner: Here & Here RadioTimes: "Rutger Hauer Dissects His Iconic “Tears in Rain” Blade Runner Monologue" YouTube: “Blade Runner - Final scene, ‘Tears in Rain' Monologue (HD)” Michael Shulman in Vanity Fair: “Untold Story: The Battle for Blade Runner” The Seven (Not Six) Different Film Cuts of Blade Runner (1982) Vice's Motherboard's Brian Merchant Reveals a Shocker: “The Studio Execs [Also] Hated the Blade Runner Voiceover They Forced Harrison Ford to Do” Vulture: “Which Cut of Blade Runner Should I Be Watching” No Film School: “Why Does the Ending of 'Blade Runner' Look Familiar? Ask Stanley Kubrick” A Mr. Kenneth Thompson Explains How YOU Can Make Gaff's Origami Unicorn (or How You Can Make a Purchase Order for HIM to Make It for You for $14.99) Duke Harper's Youtube Aide: “Origami Blade Runner Unicorn Tutorial” Vice: “Behold, the Moment Harrison Ford Decked Ryan Gosling in the Face” The Official Website for Blade Runner 2049 The Official Timeline for Events in the Blade Runner Universe Inverse Entertainment: “How All Three Blade Runner 2049 Shorts Connect to the Original” Forbes Magazine: “Blade Runner 2049 Is A Box Office Bomb: 10 Reasons It Was Doomed” Rolling Stone: “Why Blade Runner 2049 May Have Been a Victim of Peak Dystopia Fatigue” Forbes Magazine: “Box Office: Blade Runner 2049 Is A Bomb Because of Its Budget” Nexus 6 Versus Nexus 8 Versus Nexus 9?   Wahyd Vannoni in PBS NewsHour: “Brands Treat Us Like the Replicants in Blade Runner” Hilarious and Criminally Underseen YouTube Parody: “Trump Blade Runner Ad” Sadly, in 2049, the LAPD Still Exists & It's Even Bigger and Badder Than Ever: Here, Here and Here. BBC Newsbeat: “The Curse of Blade Runner's Adverts” Kevin Spacey Vs. Brad Pitt in David Fincher's Seven: “What's in the Box?!” The Original Miracle Birth Meme Collider Interview: “Robin Wright on Blade Runner 2049 and Roger Deakins” Joi as Joy: Your Pocket Girlfriend with Misogyny at Your Fingertips Self-Creating Replicants Is an Allegory to Marxist-Feminist Notions of Reproductive Labor A Joke Well-Deserved by LA Folks to California's Self-Satisfied Bordertown: San Diego Becomes a Waste Dump in Blade Runner 2049 Beyond the Blade Runner Burn: San Diego Visualized in Cinema Leah D. Shade in Patheos: “Watching Blade Runner (1982) in the Age of Black Lives Matter” PBS Newshour: “Where Does America's E-Waste End Up? GPS Tracker Tells All” Alex Acks in Book Riot: “Choose a Better Chosen One” In Blade Runner 2049, Las Vegas Is a Post-Nuclear Wasteland Whose Lasting Remnants Include Bees & Boobs (with Deckard on the Lookout for Interlopers Who Might Raid His Free Alcohol) Is Deckard's Dog a Replicant? That and Other Easter Eggs in Den of Geek. The Reflecting Pond and Niander Wallace: “Blade Runner 2049: Designing the Future” - Production Designer Dennis Gassner Discusses the Brutal Environments of Director Denis Villeneuve's Ambitious Sequel in The American Cinematographer. Esther Inglis-Arkell in io9: “10 Lessons From Real-Life Revolutions That Fictional Dystopias Ignore” NERD FIGHT: Were Sean Young's Eyes Truly Green? Some Say Yes. Others Say No. Why Joe Is Possibly an Allusion to Joe Chip from Philip K. Dick's Ubik & Why “K” Is Also a Potential Allusion to Franz Kafka's character Joseph K. in The Trial. Does Deckard's Daughter, Dr. Stalline, Really Have an Autoimmune Disorder? “15 Burning Questions We Have After Blade Runner 2049” Dr. Stalline Is Like Osama Bin Laden as Seen in Washington Post's Report: “Bin Laden Discovered ‘Hiding in Plain Sight'” Roy Batty: “Shores of Orion . . . Tears in the Rain” Jane Ciabattari in BBC News: “Is Borges 20th Century's Most Important Writer?” Blade Runner 2049's Full Cast Member List on IMDb Box Office Mojo: Blade Runner 2049's Current Financial Pulse Rate Deakins Nominated 13 times for Oscars & Comes Up Empty: A Working History Erik Abriss in Collider: “Oscar Snubs: 4 Times Rogers Deakins Should Have Won Best Cinematography” Roger Deakins in The Guardian: “Why I Won't Win an Oscar” The Screenwriter for the Blade Runner Franchise: Hampton Fancher: A Working History IndieWire: “Blade Runner 2049 Soundtrack: Denis Villeneuve Finally Reveals Why Jóhann Jóhannsson Left the Project Forbes Magazine (Japanese Edition): On Why Blade Runner 2049 Failed for Its Opening Weekend in the Box Office. {For those that can't read Japanese, I will summarize what Tomoko (my badass wife!) translated for me--while we were both laughing at the article's assessment: the film failed due to it 1) being aimed at middle aged men in their forties; 2) it wasn't appealing to women, and henceforth, not of interest to dating couples or married folks; 3) and lastly dads couldn't take their kids to the movie because of its “R” rating} Beth Elderkin in io9: “Director Says CGI Will Take a Back Seat to Practical Effects in Blade Runner” This Is Now Our Third Episode on Terminal Dystopia Syndrome (TDS); Here Are Some Prior Podcast Episodes Concerning TDS: The Future Is a Mixtape: Episode 019: Fake Plastic World (on Adam Curtis' HyperNormalisation) The Future Is a Mixtape: Episode 004: Terminal Dystopia Syndrome (TDS) (on Dave Eggers' The Circle) Stephen Humphries in Christian Science Monitor: “Blade Runner 2049: Why Some Science Fiction Writers Are Tired of Dystopias” David Graeber in The Baffler: "Despair Fatigue" BBC News: “Blade Runner: Which Predictions Have Come True?” SyFy Wire: “How Accurate Is Blade Runner 2049's Prediction of the Future?” -{Futurists Grade Blade Runner 2049's Vision of the Future}- Mashable: How the Future Technology of Blade Runner 2049 Reflects Our Present Mark Fisher's Capitalist Realism: Is There No Alternative? (2009) Verso's Blog: “In Memoriam: Mark Fisher (1968-2017)” Zero Books' on YouTube: “Capitalist Realism and Mr Robot” Frank Ruiz in The Sacramento Bee: “Salton Sea Is a California Crisis. It's Time for the State to Show Some Urgency” Ian James in The Desert Sun: “Toxic Dust and Asthma Plague Salton Sea Communities” California State Senator Kevin De Leon Sells Out the Public in Favor of Pay-to-Play Water Barons as Seen in The San Bernardino Sun: “Bill Targeting Cadiz Water Transfer Dies in Senate Committee” Abby Olcese in Sojourners Online: “Blade Runner 2049 Paints an All-White Future. Again.” Jess Joho in Mashable: “The Hidden Feminist Message Buried Inside Blade Runner 2049” Kyle Buchanan in Vulture: “Why Ex Machina's Take on Gender Is So Advanced” Is Joi Anything More Than Joe's Pocket-Girlfriend? As Explored in Collider: “Blade Runner 2049 and Gender: The Future Is Female” GQ Magazine: “Blade Runner 2049: Let's Unpack That Strange, Fascinating Threesome Sex Scene” Kyle Buchanan in Vulture: “The Secrets Behind Blade Runner 2049's Surreal Threesome” Mike D'Angelo in The A.V. Club: “An Aborted Three-Way (of Sorts) Is the Most Strangely Affecting Scene in Her” Nathan Rabin's “Manic Pixie Dream Girl” Essay (2007) in The A.V. Club, Where the Trope Originally Surfaced: “The Bataan Death March of Whimsy Case File #1: Elizabethtown” Nathan Rabin in Salon Magazine: “I'm Sorry for Coining the Phrase “Manic Pixie Dream Girl” John Guida in The New York Times: “Are Blockbusters Destroying the Movies?” Michael Moorcock's Infamous Take-Down: “Starship Stormtroopers” Angelica Jade Bastién in Vulture: “Why Don't Dystopias Know How to Talk About Race?” Sarah Emerson in Vice's Motherboard: “Cyberpunk Cities Fetishize Asian Culture But Have No Asians” Siddhant Adlakha in Birth.Movies.Death: “On Blade Runner 2049's Asian Influence [And Disconnect]” Amanda M. Franklin in The Conversation: “Mantis Shrimp Have the World's Best Eyes--But Why?” David Rudd Cycleback's “Eye/Brain Physiology and Why Humans Don't See Reality But a Translation of It” Sarah Benet-Weiser in The Conversation: “What the ‘Fearless Girl” Statue and Harvey Weinstein Have in Common” Jonathan Cook: “Wonder Woman Is a Hero Only the Military-Industrial-Complex Could Create” A Blatant Example of “Lean-In” Feminism or a Laughable Article on Neoliberal Progressivism? As Seen in IndieWire: “Wonder Woman 2: Patty Jenkins Highest Paid Female Director” Vice on YouTube: “Inside the Making of Blade Runner 2049” {Interviewer to Ryan Gosling: “Do you feel optimistic about the future of mankind?” Gosling pauses, gurgles, snorts, and then they both laugh . . . . . . And So The Future Must Be A Mixtape to Have Any At All . . .   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, Matt & Jesse have a discussion with Kelsey Goldberg (@KelseyFGold) and Jack Suria Linares (@SuriaLinares213) from DSA-Los Angeles chapter about the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA). Kelsey and Jack explore their childhood and later political awakening by describing the moment (or moments) that led to not only their transcendent belief in socialism, but how they went beyond mere beliefs by deciding to take action and become activists and organizers via their self-discovery process. We will also learn about DSA's history and contributions, as well as its future aims as a consequence of its recent National Convention. Additionally, our visitors to the show will talk about what DSA-LA has in the revolutionary pot that's about to boil over into a Mario-Brothers pasta of comrade-goodness. By the very end of this podcast episode, Kelsey, Jesse and Jack get our ‘DSA-Curious' Comrade, Matthew, to break down his resistance and finally #TrySocialism. Mentioned In This Episode: The National Website for Democratic Socialists of America The Facebook Page for Democratic Socialists of America The Twitter Page for Democratic Socialists of America The Official Homepage for the Los Angeles Chapter of DSA The Facebook Page for DSA-LA The Twitter Page for DSA-LAJeff Stein in Vox: “Nine Questions About the Democratic Socialists of America You Were Too Embarrassed to Ask” A Slacker-Ode as a Comic-Meme: Split Photo Abbott & Costello Vs. Jesse & Matt New Democratic Party (NDP) of Canada: A Historical Guide of Its Policies and Aims A List of Official (& Past) Political Parties in Canada The Guardian: “Thomas Piketty on the Rise of Bernie Sanders: The U.S. Enters a New Political Era” (Translated from Its Original Publication Source: Le Monde - 14 February 2016)The Entrepreneurial Myth Meets the Diseased Myth of the Star System: A Recent Propaganda Ad from IKEA The Service Employee International Union (SEIU): A Wikipedia History The Official Website for SEIU Richard Berman in The Washington Times: “A Story of Union Waste: The Service Union Squanders Millions on a Losing Cause” Rudolf Rocker: A Biography The Anarchist Library: Articles and Books by Rudolf Rocker GoFundMe Accounts for Boston Massacre (the record for GoFundMe, in 2013, was for Jeff Baumen, who raised $805,000.00 from donations) O THE IRONY: Free Healthcare for American Prisoners! (But No Deductibles or Copays?) PBS's 25th Anniversary Special: Looking Back at the LA Riots After the Beating of Rodney King Anna Deavere Smith's Stunning ‘Documentary Theater' Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992 Noam Chomsky's Manufacturing Consent - The Documentary (1992) Noam Chomsky Admits He's Not Charismatic But Folks Follow Him Instead for the Ideas He Offers . . .Chris Hedges in Truthdig: “Noam Chomsky is America's greatest intellectual. His massive body of work, which includes nearly 100 books, has for decades deflated and exposed the lies of the power elite and the myths they perpetrate. Chomsky has done this despite being blacklisted by the commercial media, turned into a pariah by the academy and, by his own admission, being a pedantic and at times slightly boring speaker. He combines moral autonomy with rigorous scholarship, a remarkable grasp of detail and a searing intellect. He curtly dismisses our two-party system as a mirage orchestrated by the corporate state, excoriates the liberal intelligentsia for being fops and courtiers and describes the drivel of the commercial media as a form of ‘brainwashing.'” Al Jazeera: “More Americans Joining Socialist Groups Under Trump” The New Republic: “Are the Democratic Socialists of America For Real?” Sarah Silverman at the DNC Convention in 2016: “Can I just say, to the Bernie or Bust People, You're Being Ridiculous.” Matthew Snyder's Co-Organizing for the First Fundraiser in the I.E. for Sanders' Presidential Run: “Our Barn-Storming-for-Bernie Fundraiser in the I.E.” {July 18th, 2015} Why People Support Bernie Sanders from Such a Broad Spectrum of American Society? James Walsh and Guardian Readers: “10 Reasons Why Voters Are Turning to Bernie Sanders” DSA's Official Endorsement for Bernie Sanders' Candidacy for President in 2016 Daniel Denvir's The Dig (Podcast): “The Democratic Socialists of America and the Fight Against Trump” Did Labour Really Gain 150,00 New Members After the General Election? The Guardian: “Heather Heyer, Victim of Charlottesville Car Attack, Was a Civil Rights Activist” The Guardian: “Mother of Charlottesville Victim Heather Heyer: They Tried to Kill My Child to Shut Her Up.” Michael Tomasky in The Guardian: “Should Obama Have Accepted the Nobel Prize?” Rob Wile in The Business Insider: “12 People Who Should Not Have Won The Nobel Peace Prize” Politifact: “Pants on Fire Claim that George Soros Money Went to Women's March Protesters” Antimedia: “That Awkward Moment When One Nobel Peace Prize Winner Bombs Another” President ‘Bomb-Bomb' Obama: This Map Shows Where President Barack Obama Dropped His 26,171 Bombs for 2016 (3,000 More Than 2015) A History of Democratic Socialists of America: 1971-2017 - A Merger of Two Different Groups Occupy Los Angeles: A History Old Memories, Old Photos: Soapbox: Jesse's Anarchist Book & Infoshop in Bellingham, Washington Fugitive Pieces: Matt's Son & Daughter at Occupy Riverside Amy Pleasant in The Huffington Post: “Artists as Activists: Pursuing Social Justice” About DSA-LA, which Started in 2011 & Now Has 1083 Members UCLA's Campus Facilities to Be Used as Athlete's Village for LA's 2028 Olympics The Los Angeles Times Gives Out Letter Grades for Public Officials: Why Eric Garcetti Is Mediocre or Even Awful The Chicago Reader's Article on the DSA Convention for August 2017: “Beyond the ‘Bernie bro': Socialism's Diverse New Youth Brigade” Jack L. Suria-Linares – 2017 NPC Candidate – Local Chapter: Los Angeles To Show Solidarity with Teamster Workers, LA Dock Workers Refused to Unload Any Non-Union Trucks Jia Tolentino: “The Gig Economy Celebrates Working Yourself to Death” Catherine Baab-Muguira in Quartz: “GENERATION 1099: Millennials Are Obsessed with Side Hustles Because They're All We've Got” This Lousy Day in Bullshit Mythologies: For Example, The YFS Magazine as Delusional Self-Pandering: “The Age of the Millennial Entrepreneur Is Upon Us” The Huffington Post: Xennials: The Microgeneration Between Gen X and Millennials Indigenous Action Media: “Accomplices Not Allies: Abolishing The Ally Industrial Complex” Denise Cummins in Psychology Today: “Why Gen-X Doesn't Get Millennial . . . or Boomers” John Scalzi's Blog Whatever: “Straight White Male: The Lowest Difficulty Setting There Is” Briahna Joy Gray in Current Affairs: “How Identity Became a Weapon Against the Left” East Bay DSA Support for SB-562 (Single Payer) Versus Multi-Platform Tendencies for DSA-LA with Nolympics, the Campaign for Making LA a Sanctuary City and Work on LA's Tragic Lack of Solutions for Skid Row. How to Become a Supporting Member of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) Childcare & Activism: “Caring for Rosie the Riveter's Kids” The DSA's Structure Oscar Wilde: “Socialism is great but it takes up too many evenings.” David Graeber's TEDxWhitechapel talk: “The Possibility of Political Pleasure” {Where He Fully and Sheepishly Admits That He Enjoys Political Meetings} Sophia A. McClennen in Salon Magazine: “10 Reasons Why #DemExit Is Serious: Getting Rid of Debbie Wasserman Schultz Is Not Enough” A Reddit Discussion on the History of the Rose in Revolutionary Socialist Movements The Worker's Song--Both Poignant & Powerful: “Bread and Roses” Joan Baez Sings “Bread and Roses” The Rose Emoji Revolution for DSA: It's Not Just for Valentine's or Mother's Day DSA-LA Videos, which includes the series 30 in 30, and profiles 30 Leftists in 30 days leading up to the May Day in 2017.Vice News (Sports): “Meet Los Angeles's New Anti-Olympics Movement” The Real News (YouTube): Michael Payne from the Charlottesville Chapter of Democratic Socialists of America Retells Harrowing Account of Car-Attack The Deceptively Brilliant and Charming YouTube Video Thanks, Capitalism! Created in Collaboration with DSA-Los Angeles & the DSA National Design Committee (Kelsey Goldberg Narrates the Video) DSA-LA Crashes Garcetti's Re-Election Bash IndieWire's Bullshit (Neoliberal) Article Celebrating Patty Jenkins “Breaking the Glass Ceiling on Director Pay” Snap Election - Thor Ragnarok parody with Theresa May and Jeremy Corbyn Jack Suria Linares in New Politics: “DSA Convention: Mapping a Strategy, Avoiding Dead-Ends” Matt's Mention with the Problems with Folk Politics is Explored in Detail with Alex Williams and Nick Srnicek's Inventing the Future: Postcapitalism and a World Without Work {And Discussed in Episode 15 of The Future Is A Mixtape} Nick Falkvinges's “3-Pirate Party Rule” in Swarmwise: A Tactical Manual to Changing the World Kelsey Goldberg in Left Side of History: “Do Not Merely Eat Cake” The Socialist Alternative Versus the Green Party Versus the DSA: Organizing Outside of Elections and What Should Count as Success? Mayor-elect Lumumba: Jackson 'to Be the Most Radical City on the Planet' Winning Mayoral Candidate in Jackson, Mississippi: Chokwe Antar LumumbaCathy Woolard for Atlanta MayorCathy Woolard's Competitors for Mayor of Atlanta Bernie Sanders on Democratic Socialism FULL Speech - Georgetown University - Given on November 19, 2015 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 Or Just Become a “Cyberspace-Friend” @Matthew Snyder's Facebook Account

On this episode of The Future Is A Mixtape, Matt & Jesse explore the most exceptional work of utopian thinking since the days of Occupy Wall Street: Nick Srnicek and Alex Williams' Inventing the Future: Postcapitalism and a World Without Work (2015). This is the co-hosts third such “CliffPod,” and they will hum over some of the most far-reaching and visionary aspects of this book, weighing out the co-authors' success in diagnosing why the left has been--to use Jesse's apt phrase--“drowning in failures” amid the continued carnage of Neoliberalism's rotisserie blades. Matt & Jesse will also evaluate the insights the authors gain from how the founders of the Mont Pelerin Society were able to masterfully deploy “second hand dealers” and create a winning strategy for the right that the left has yet to match in any transformative way (and which go beyond the Cult of Direct Action and Paper Anarchy). Finally, our Abbot & Costello co-hosts will assess these authors' policy demands and solutions in order to learn why this book about a post-work world is so vital to read for our deserved Star Trek future. Mentioned In This Episode: The Brief Wild History of “CliffsNotes” (Inspiring Our Nascent CliffPods)The Background of Karl Marx's Illustrious & Legendary Quote: Marx's oft-cited comment in The German Ideology that in a communist society (or some version of a post-capitalist society) he would be able to "hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticise after dinner, just as I have a mind, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, shepherd or critic" has become more famous than what he said in other places, more specifically.To Learn What Marx Actually Thought About What the End of Capitalism Would Look Like, You Would Have to Read What He Wrote in Chapter 32 in Capital: Volume 1: A Critique of Political Economy:"Along with the constantly diminishing number of the magnates of capital, who usurp and monopolize all advantages of this process of transformation, grows the mass of misery, oppression, slavery, degradation, exploitation; but with this too grows the revolt of the working-class, a class always increasing in numbers, and disciplined, united, organized by the very mechanism of the process of capitalist production itself. The monopoly of capital becomes a fetter upon the mode of production, which has sprung up and flourished along with, and under it. Centralization of the means of production and socialization of labor at last reach a point where they become incompatible with their capitalist integument. Thus integument is burst asunder. The knell of capitalist private property sounds. The expropriators are expropriated.” IMPORTANT CORRECTION: Matthew Snyder's allusion to “some weird kind of Mars landing where you have to do mine-work in some bad 1980's Science Fiction film” is actually Peter Hyman's Outland (1981)--the setting of which takes place on Jupiter where Sean Connery must find his inner High Noon as exploited workers mysteriously and ceaselessly continue to die. Caroline Fredrickson's Long Essay in The Atlantic: “There Is No Excuse for How Universities Treat Adjuncts” Matthew Snyder's First Job at Seventeen: J.C. Zips (which is actually just barely in Richland, Washington) Charles Eisenstein's Book, Sacred Economics (2011) and Ian Mackenzie's Short Film Inspired by Eisenstein's Work of NonfictionAlex Williams and Nick Srnicek's Co-Authored Book: Inventing the Future: Postcapitalism and a World Without Work (2015) The Indigogo Campaign to Develop a Documentary Based on the Book Inventing the Future Alex Williams and Nick Srnicek's First Co-Authored Work Appeared in the Edited Collection: #Accelerate: The Accelerationist Reader (2014) Joshua Bregman Visit With Us for Episode 6 of The Future Is A Mixtape: “Ye Are Many, They Are Few” Novara Radio's Podcast of Aaron Bastani Interviewing Alex Williams and Nick Srnicek, the Co-Authors for Inventing the Future Alex Williams and Nick Srnicek Appear on Doug Henwood's Podcast Behind the News to Discuss Their Book Inventing the Future (April 6, 2017) Novara Radio & Aaron Bastani's YouTube Definition of “Fully Automated Luxury Communism”Peter Frase's Four Futures: Life After Capitalism (Our CliffPod of This Masterful Work of Nonfiction Can Be Found Here) “Bernie Sanders Is Magical” as a GIF (& Which Later Inspired Shirt-Makers): Here. The Exact Shirt-Color & Design (the Image of Which Includes Bernie Shooting Rainbows from His Right Hand): Here. The Anarchist Library: Jan D. Matthews' “An Introduction to the Situationists” Jo Freeman's (aka Joreen's) Original Essay: “The Tyranny of Structurelessness”Vice: “We Interviewed the Revolutionaries Pouring Concrete on London's 'Anti-Homeless' Spikes” For a Very Different Interpretation, Read Mark Bray's Translating Anarchy: The Anarchism in Occupy Wall Street The New Yorker's Article on David Graeber and Occupy Wall Street's Offshoot Project, Rolling Jubilee: “A Robin Hood for the Debt Crisis?”The Press-Enterprise: “Occupy Riverside Encampment Removed” (Photo-Gallery) & Article Description of the Event on November 30, 2011: “Occupy Encampment Cleared from Downtown”Jodi Dean's Phrase Worthy of Legendary Quotation Status: “Goldman Sachs doesn't care if you raise chickens.” Here Is a Review from Local-Organic Only Activist Who Quotes the Phrase & Evaluates the Book Fairly. The Overton Window: Neoliberalism Now Owns This Sheet of Glass Laura Marsh in The New Republic: “The Flaws of the Overton Window” Robert Frost's Defense of Poetic Meter & Traditional Poetry Form: “You can't play tennis without a net.” Milton Friedman Defines (Right-)Libertarianism & His Awful Ideas About Accountability and Justice During His 1999 Appearance on Uncommon Knowledge's “Take It To the Limits” Episode The Origins of Negative-Solidarity from Private Workers Toward Public Workers' Pensions: MarketWatch's “The Inventor of the 401(k) Says He Created a ‘Monster'” Bacon's Rebellion: A History of Positive Solidarity & the Land-Barons' Reactionary Aims to Create Negative Solidarity:“It was the first rebellion in the American colonies in which discontented frontiersmen took part. A similar uprising in Maryland took place later that year. The alliance between indentured servants and Africans (most enslaved until death or freed), united by their bond-servitude, disturbed the ruling class, who responded by hardening the racial caste of slavery in an attempt to divide the two races from subsequent united uprisings with the passage of the Virginia Slave Codes of 1705.” Adam Curtis' Excellent HyperNormalisation (Matt's Favorite Documentary of 2016) The Origin of Margaret Thatcher's Phrase: “TINA” (There Is No Alternative) Broken Social Scene's Brilliant New Album Hug of Thunder and Feist's Marvelous  and Moving Song Lyric: “The future's not what it used to be / but we still gotta get there.” Cory Robin's Magisterial Essay in The Nation: “Reclaiming the Politics of Freedom” Adult Swim's Hilarious and Cutting Satire Short: For-Profit Online University The Digital Aristocracy Versus the Digital Paupers: What Nathan Schneider Explains in America: The Jesuit Review: “How the Digital Economy Is Making Us Gleaners Again” David Graeber in The Baffler: “Of Flying Cars and the Declining Rate of Profit” Fred Armisen in Portlandia: “Portland Is a City Where Young People Go to Retire” Dave Eggers' The Circle. The Novel Was Also Discussed in Episode 4 of The Future Is A Mixtape: “Terminal Dystopia Syndrome (TDS)” NPR: “Keynes Predicted We Would Be Working 15-Hour Weeks. Why Was He So Wrong?” Shana Lebowitz in Business Insider: “In 1930, economist John Keynes predicted we'd only work 15 hours a week — here's one theory why he was wrong” The Very Interesting But Quiet History of Paul Lafargue: The First to Argue for the 3-Hour Work Day Paul Lafargue's Most Well Known Work: The Right to Be Lazy (1883)Geoffrey Mohan in The Los Angeles Times: “As California's Labor Shortage Grows, Farmers Race to Replace Workers with Robots”David Horsey in The Los Angeles Times: “Robots, Not Immigrants, Are Taking American Jobs” Matt Bruenig's Just-Created & Emergent People's Policy Project (3P)--A Crowd-Founded Anti-Capitalist Thinktank Want to Help the People's Policy Project? Go to Patreon & Donate. The Dig: “Matt Bruenig on Why Welfare Is Great and We Need More of It”And to Close Out This Week's Shownotes About a Post-Work World, I'll End With a Revolutionary Fop Who Proudly Wore Flowers as Lapels . . . Oscar Wilde. As He So Movingly Put It, So Many Years Ago, in The Soul of Man Under Socialism:"A great deal of nonsense is being written and talked nowadays about the dignity of manual labour. There is nothing necessarily dignified about manual labour at all, and most of it is absolutely degrading. It is mentally and morally injurious to man to do anything in which he does not find pleasure, and many forms of labour are quite pleasureless activities, and should be regarded as such. To sweep a slushy crossing for eight hours, on a day when the east wind is blowing is a disgusting occupation. To sweep it with mental, moral, or physical dignity seems to me to be impossible. To sweep it with joy would be appalling. Man is made for something better than disturbing dirt. All work of that kind should be done by a machine." 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.

In this fifth episode of The Future Is A Mixtape, Matt & Jesse discuss Peter Frase's diaphanous, compact and idea-drenched work of “Social Science Fiction,” which revs up & rides out to the sweet page-count of 150 pages, and contains far more ideas than most books three-times its size (ahem, The Circle). Frase's nonfiction book, Four Futures: Life After Capitalism, argues that there are actually four possible futures for humanity. The book accomplishes this task, ingeniously so, by threading together science fiction novels as well as marxist and futurist theories to see what aspects will appear in these futures, and how they might overlap or build off one another. The author doesn't simply re-shuffle the easy card-deck of the Star Trek versus The Matrix techno-binary--that Yanis Varoufakis and other activist-thinkers often cite as the only two techno-futures available. Instead, Peter Frase offers up four possible futures: Communism, Rentism, Socialism and Exterminism. And by coordinating these “ideal types” upon the axis points of equity vs hierarchy and abundance vs scarcity, the author illuminates what these four futures are likely to give us.   Mentioned on this episode:   How Captain Picard Likes His Nightcap: “Tea. Earl Grey. Hot.”   And When Captain Picard Gets Communist-Crazy: The Earl Tea Techno Remix   Peter Frase's Four Futures: Life After Capitalism   Matthew Snyder's Apologia Pro Vita: Verso Book Series (Correction - ABCs of Socialism Is NOT Part of the Series)   Peter Frase's Original Jacobin Essay that Became the Basis for His Debut Non-fiction Work, Four Futures: “One Thing Is Certain Of Is That Capitalism Will End”   Verso Book Talk with Peter Frase and Alyssa Battistoni Filmed in Brooklyn, NY Four Futures: Four Original Novellas of Science Fiction - As Suggested by Isaac Asimov Who Prods SF Authors to Detail Four Possible Futures to Overpopulation Jedediah Purdy's “The Art of the Possible: Peter Frase's Four Futures” in the Los Angeles Review of Books   Essays and Books on Doom/Paradise Future of Automation:   “The Robot Invasion” by Farhad Manjoo Race Against the Machine by Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee "Welcome, Robot Overlords. Please Don't Fire Us?" by Kevin Drum Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of a Jobless Future by Martin Ford EXTERMINISM: Hierarchy & Scarcity:   Neill Blomkamp's 2013 SF film, Elysium Bong Joon-Ho's 2014 Sci-Fi Traintopia: Snowpiercer   Paolo Bacigalupi's Dystopian Science Fiction Novel: The Windup Girl   RENTISM: Hierarchy & Abundance:   Charles Stross' Science Fiction Novel: Accelerando   Philip K. Dick's Legendary SF Novel: Ubik   Open Source Ecology: “Open Source Philosophy” - Video Presentation   Open Source Ecology - Machines: Global Village Construction Set   SOCIALISM: Equality & Scarcity:   Pacific Edge: Three Californias (Wild Shore Triptych) by Kim Stanley Robinson   Mars Trilogy Book Series by Kim Stanley Robinson   Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster by Rebecca Solnit   The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin   Woman on the Edge of Time by Marge Piercy   Wanuri Kahiu's Brilliant SF Short, Pumzi   COMMUNISM: Equality & Abundance   Bad Trope-Texts About the End-of-Work: Kurt Vonnegut's Player Piano; Pixar's Wall-E and E.M Forster's The Machine Stops (the latter work is a novella that's not only influenced Wall-E, but it's become the prophetic basis for most dystopian views on non-work and technology)   Cory Doctorow's Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom   Cory Doctorow's Essay in Locus Magazine: “Wealth Inequality Is Even Worse in Reputation Economies”   Gene Roddenberry's Star Trek: The Original Series   Picard's Spaceship That Makes His Secret Hot Tea: Star Trek: The Next Generation   Episode Outro: Captain Picard in Star Trek: “Money Doesn't Exist in the Future”

This week, Matt & Jesse discuss the second point on “The Poison Pyramid” -- namely the horror-show of Capitalism, and why it's an awful idea that we should refuse to carry with us into our much-deserved future.   Mentioned In This Episode:   David Graeber's Of Flying Cars and the Declining Rate of Profit David Graeber's On Bureaucratic Technologies & the Future as Dream-Time   A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster - a Nonfiction Book by Rebecca Solnit Rebecca Solnit's Essay: When Media Is the Disaster: Covering HaitiBen Ehrenreich's Essay: Why Did U.S. Aid Focus on Securing Haiti Rather Than Helping Haitians? One Nation Under God - A Nonfiction Book by Kevin M. Kruse How 'One Nation' Didn't Become 'Under God' Until The '50s Religious Revival - an Interview with Kevin M. Kruse for NPR's Fresh Air The Corporation   Barbara Ehrenreich's Comments About Why Marx Would Be Shocked Over Capitalism's Ability to Create Scarcity Rather Than Its Promised Post-Scarcity   OXFAM: An economy for the 99 percent   The world's eight wealthiest people   Mark Zuckerberg is Giving Away His Money, but With a Twist by Fortune Magazine's Mathew Ingram YouTube Playlist: Capitalism   David Suzuki's YouTube Video on Capitalism's Savage Externalities   Anohni's Song - “4 Degrees” From Her Gorgeous & Ferocious Album Hopelessness   James Lovelock, the Prophet - Eminent scientist says global warming is irreversible - and over 6 billion people will perish at the end of the century Parecon: Life After Capitalism by Michael Albert

For the debut episode of The Future Is A Mixtape, Matt & Jesse introduce the concept of “The Poison Pyramid” -- an idea-shape composed of three very bad ideas that shouldn't be part of humanity's shared future. The discussion tackles the first of these bad ideas: Religion.   Mentioned on this episode:   “You know what's cool… a billion dollars”     Utopia or Oblivion: The Prospects for Humanity by R. Buckminster Fuller   Utopia by Thomas More   Saving Spaceship Earth By Matthew Snyder   Hieroglyph: Stories and Visions for a Better Future   HyperNormalization by Adam Curtis   Kim Stanley Robinson says Elon Musk's Mars plan is a "1920s science-fiction cliché"   Cell Phones And Flying · Louis C.K.   “The Four Horsemen”   “An Evening with Richard Dawkins and Sam Harris” in Glendale, California   On Orientalism by Edward Said   Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs Godless Parents Are Doing a Better Job by Tracy Moore

Curling Champion, Greg Wants To Be An Olympian, Crystal Pepsi, Human Food, Cat Surprise, Achy Breaky 2, OFFICE BREAK GIFTS, Marcus Smart, Tinder At The Olympics, ASYLUM, Valentine's Day, THE SECRET SOCIETY, Matt & Jesse, Dating Tips, DRINK CONTEST, They Are Awesome