Podcast appearances and mentions of sam kriss

On Sean's NYT blackout in the Heavy Traffic reading write up, Sam Kriss's Fuccboi takedown, Ulysses, Hamlet, Harold's new short story, and the new movement—Baroque Brutalist Sentimentalism. Bonus hour and video: https://www.patreon.com/c/1storypod Harold's story: https://haroldrogers.substack.com/p/i-won Sean's audio goes a bit quiet 6-14 minutes, he got too excited ranting and pulled the plug, but it comes back.

I think I got the original post slightly off. I was critiquing Sam Kriss' claim that the best traditions come from “just doing stuff”, without trying to tie things back to anything in the past. The counterexample I was thinking of was all the 2010s New Atheist attempts to reinvent “church, but secular”. These were well-intentioned. Christians get lots of benefits from going to church, like a good community. These benefits don't seem obviously dependent on the religious nature. So instead of tying your weekly meeting back to what Jesus and St. Peter and so on said two thousand years ago, why not “just do stuff” and have a secular weekly meeting? Most of these attempts fell apart. One of them, the Sunday Assembly, clings to existence but doesn't seem too successful. People with ancient traditions 1, people who just do stuff 0. But after thinking about it more, maybe this isn't what Sam means. https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/clarification-on-fake-tradition-is 

Subscribe on Spotify ∙ Stitcher ∙ Apple ∙ Pocket Casts ∙ Google ∙ TuneIn ∙ RSSNucleus finally talk about it…….later.How does this all work? Annoying people is fun!Sam Kriss noted that “something annoying is both fascinating and unbearable,” in I know a song that gets on everybody's nerves (Damage 2021). “But it's interesting how it seems to be impossible to object to something annoying simply on the basis that it's annoying. Annoyances are small, they're not important; you can swat a fly if it buzzes too close, but it's hardly worth getting out of your chair. At the same time, any annoyance left alone too long becomes maddening, and the more minor the annoyance, the crazier it makes you.”In the Gas Giants episode Gong – The Radio Gnome Invisible Trilogy, Gav set forth a theory of Prog: “The trap for Prog Rock that it must not fall into is that it end up being basically Chuck Berry carried out by grotesquely huge means. It has to have a certain amount of complexity otherwise it's just a lot of noodling and not actually very much content.”He explained that Prog makes Chuck Berry go on forever. “Wheres a Chuck Berry guitar solo would maybe be 40 or 30 seconds long, be very simple and to the point and actually really good, in the world of prog, if everything's gone wrong, it will be 18 minutes long.”Recordings, etc…A playlist of the main albums of the Ian Carr / Don Rendell Quintet that preceded Nucleus, with some additional material from other pre-Nucleus projectsHere's one with most of the Nucleus studio albums, but sadly missing Out of The Long Dark and The Pretty Redhead.So there's Out of the Long Dark…and here's Awakening…Don't look at it too long, it'll make you lose your mind! The famous Vertigo Swirl, very much the stuff of legends…Interviews, Video, etc…Chris Spedding gives valuable insight into the beginning of Nucleus and why he left. We've put the interview, which is a long one, to the exact spot where he discusses this, but he's an interesting guy and it is well worth listening to the whole thing. For guitar heads, there is also a discussion of equipment.In case you were curious after we'd spoken about both Pete Brown and Graham Bond, here they both are.Here's another one set up for the exact moment when Nucleus is discussed, but the entire show is worth a look…Check out the Snakehips era band on German TV with a wildly enthusiastic Alexis Korner somehow in charge of the proceedings. Who knew he spoke German?This is maybe around the time of Under the Sun, a really great show in Norway. There is an interview at about the 27 minute mark.Do we recognise this?Oh Yes!Print, etc…* "Out Of The Long Dark", Alan Shipton's dry but at least factual account of Ian's Life* "Music Outside" Nobody wrote better about Ian Carr than Ian Carr, but this 1973 book, long out of print but now available in a 2nd edition, saves only the last chapter for an account of the founding of Nucleus and devotes the rest of the space to wonderful portraits of the British Musicians who were effectively trying to find a British identity in Jazz. Highly recommendedNucleus & Next, A Personal Odyssey, etc…The relaxed blues number, Easy Does It Now....and here's an early version of the Band, without Tom , playing a tune which was very much based on "Easy Does It Now". 1982, I Think…Was this ,perhaps…Visions Of Ra, the Next demo from December of 1983The origin of this bass line? Clue: This is the Christmas of 1983.Robert's account of how Next happenedMy memory insists that in 1982 Gavin came to our youth orchestra rehearsals wearing a corduroy suit and a Paisley bow tie. Now I'm sure he didn't, and I'm also pretty sure that this impression settled in over the years thanks to 1) an anecdote of James's in which a 13- or maybe 14-year-old Gavin did indeed turn up to Sunday afternoon Crusaders classes in a green velvet suit, and 2) his uncanny resemblance at the time to television's Doctor Jonathan Miller.At these rehearsals our Gav impressed me as being witty, self-confident and slightly eccentric, traits he displayed flamboyantly when he showed up at Glasgow Airport wearing a nipple-chafing gondolier's t-shirt the day we jetted off on our life-changing world tour of Nuremberg. Needless to say, the rest of us were very Scottishly attired in v-necks and parkas, except for one poor guy, a low-ranking percussionist named Martin, who turned up in a cobalt blue three-piece suit bought by yokel parents expressly for his first time on a plane. Hilariously, a couple of years later this same percussionist quite unintentionally became the mainspring of no small amount of anguish for our Ken, because this chap Martin, you see, was at the time going steady with a hot-blooded young lass that Ken would subsequently and devotedly squire, and, from those very same times at the orchestra, you see, Ken just happened to be privy to the fact that Big Martin the drummer, his amatory predecessor, was appallingly well-endowed… well, it was never going to work.Anyway, to Bavaria we flew, much fun was had, and I got to see Gavin perform free jazz in his mamilla-flaying Venetianesque t-shirt in the cellar of a Baader-Meinhof-backed community centre called The Komm. The following day, to the beat of Ian Carr's In Flagrante Delicto, I collared him on the tour bus with the proposition that we form a band, which we most certainly did, a little over a year later…To be Continued…Subscribe to Gas GiantsRSS https://api.substack.com/feed/podcast/311033.rss This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit gasgiants.substack.com

The late René Girard, former Stanford professor of literature and mentor to Peter Thiel, is having something of a moment on the right these days—as Sam Kriss recently put it in a Harper's essay, Girard's name is being "dropped on podcasts and shoved into reading lists," and "Girardianism has become a secret doctrine of a strange new frontier in reactionary thought." Why might that be the case? To unpack this question, Matt and Sam welcomed back John Ganz, whose four-part series on Girard is one of the best primers available. What does Girard have to say about who we are as human beings, why we want what we want, the origins of both violence and social order (and what they have to do with each others), the uniqueness of Christianity, and the nature of secular modernity? What use is all this to the right? And to what uses do they put it? Also: please pre-order John's book, When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s — it's sure to be excellent.Sources:John Ganz's Unpopular Front series on Girard: part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4René Girard, Deceit, Desire, and the Novel: Self and Other in Literary Structure (1976)                              Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World (1987)                              The Scapegoat (1989)                               I See Satan Fall Like Lightning (1999)Sam Kriss, "Overwhelming and Collective Murder: The Grand, Gruesome Theories of René Girard," Harper's, Nov 2023Scott Cowdell, René Girard and Secular Modernity: Christ, Culture, and Crisis (2013)...and don't forget to subscribe to Know Your Enemy on Patreon for access to all of our bonus episodes!

Acquisitive journalism at its finest. https://www.compactmag.com/article/i-bought-everything-advertised-in-national-review-and-all-i-got-was-this-bleak-odyssey-into-the-rotten-heart-of-american-conservatism-america-and-also-myself/

On this week's show, Jamelle Bouie (Opinion columnist at The New York Times) sits in for Julia Turner. The hosts first begin with a trip to Ennis, a fictional Alaskan town at the heart of True Detective: Night Country, and review the fourth installment of the HBO Max anthology series. There's a new showrunner at the helm, Issa López, who brings a desperately needed fresh take on the Lovecraftian True Detective format, along with the series' two leads, played by Jodie Foster and Kali Reis. Then, the three dissect Origin, director Ava DuVernay's ambitious feature film adapted from the nonfiction book Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by the American journalist Isabel Wilkerson. In the film, we accompany Wilkerson (played by Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor) as she develops her theory of formalized subordination based on race in America through the lens of the caste system. Finally, Pitchfork, the rockstar's digital paradise and essential music review site, announced that it would be laying off most of its senior staff and be folded into fellow Condé Nast publication, GQ. What does that mean for both Pitchfork and the future of music criticism? Slate's music critic, Carl Wilson, joins to discuss.  In the exclusive Slate Plus segment, it's the 25th anniversary of The Sopranos, and the panel discusses the series' incredible legacy along with what it means for the stories of Tony, Dr. Melfi, Carmela, and more, to hit a quarter of a century.  Email us at culturefest@slate.com.  Outro music: “Ruins” by Origo. Endorsements: Dana: Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech by Brian Merchant, a nonfiction book about the “all-but-forgotten class struggle that brought nineteenth-century England to its knees.” Jamelle: G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century, historian Beverly Gage's biography of FBI director J. Edgar Hoover. Steve: Two reviews of Elon Musk, Walter Isaacson's biography of the SpaceX/Tesla CEO: “Ultra Hardcore” by Ben Tarnoff for The New York Review and “Very Ordinary Men” by Sam Kriss for The Point.  Podcast production by Cameron Drews. Production assistance by Kat Hong.  If you enjoy this show, please consider signing up for Slate Plus. Slate Plus members get an ad-free experience across the network and exclusive content on many shows. You'll also be supporting the work we do here on the Culture Gabfest. Sign up now at Slate.com/cultureplus to help support our work. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On this week's show, Jamelle Bouie (Opinion columnist at The New York Times) sits in for Julia Turner. The hosts first begin with a trip to Ennis, a fictional Alaskan town at the heart of True Detective: Night Country, and review the fourth installment of the HBO Max anthology series. There's a new showrunner at the helm, Issa López, who brings a desperately needed fresh take on the Lovecraftian True Detective format, along with the series' two leads, played by Jodie Foster and Kali Reis. Then, the three dissect Origin, director Ava DuVernay's ambitious feature film adapted from the nonfiction book Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by the American journalist Isabel Wilkerson. In the film, we accompany Wilkerson (played by Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor) as she develops her theory of formalized subordination based on race in America through the lens of the caste system. Finally, Pitchfork, the rockstar's digital paradise and essential music review site, announced that it would be laying off most of its senior staff and be folded into fellow Condé Nast publication, GQ. What does that mean for both Pitchfork and the future of music criticism? Slate's music critic, Carl Wilson, joins to discuss.  In the exclusive Slate Plus segment, it's the 25th anniversary of The Sopranos, and the panel discusses the series' incredible legacy along with what it means for the stories of Tony, Dr. Melfi, Carmela, and more, to hit a quarter of a century.  Email us at culturefest@slate.com.  Outro music: “Ruins” by Origo. Endorsements: Dana: Blood in the Machine: The Origins of the Rebellion Against Big Tech by Brian Merchant, a nonfiction book about the “all-but-forgotten class struggle that brought nineteenth-century England to its knees.” Jamelle: G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century, historian Beverly Gage's biography of FBI director J. Edgar Hoover. Steve: Two reviews of Elon Musk, Walter Isaacson's biography of the SpaceX/Tesla CEO: “Ultra Hardcore” by Ben Tarnoff for The New York Review and “Very Ordinary Men” by Sam Kriss for The Point.  Podcast production by Cameron Drews. Production assistance by Kat Hong.  If you enjoy this show, please consider signing up for Slate Plus. Slate Plus members get an ad-free experience across the network and exclusive content on many shows. You'll also be supporting the work we do here on the Culture Gabfest. Sign up now at Slate.com/cultureplus to help support our work. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Does literacy remove your ability to be a bard as good as Homer?, published by Adrià Garriga-alonso on January 19, 2024 on LessWrong. Epistemic status: probably we did lose the ability to memorize long songs due to improper practice, but it may be possible to enjoy the benefits of literacy and epic memory simultaneously. Thanks to Niels uit de Bos for better links and editing, and to Ryan Kidd for encouragement to post. You probably know that Socrates thought writing was terrible and it would destroy people's ability to memorize things, because now they're written down and don't need to be memorized. I always thought that was a little ridiculous, maybe the effect was there and memorization would be less good, but not to a crazy extent. Well, Milman Parry and Albert Lord traveled to Yugoslavia in the 1930-1950s, and recorded performance of gusle-player (guslar) bards. The greatest of them was Avdo Međedović. From Wikipedia: At Parry's request, Avdo sang songs he already knew and some songs he heard in front of Parry, convincing him that someone Homer-like could produce a poem so long. Avdo dictated, over five days, a version of the well-known theme The Wedding of Meho Smailagić that was 12,323 lines long, saying on the fifth day to Nikola (Parry's assistant on the journey) that he knew even longer songs. On another occasion, he sang over several days an epic of 13,331 lines. He said he had several others of similar length in his repertoire. In Parry's first tour, over 80,000 lines were transcribed. All of the bards, which recited incredibly long songs from memory and composed slightly new lyrics on the fly "at the rate of [10-20] ten-syllable lines a minute", and they could not have been geniuses, because there were too many of them. Instead, they had a "special technique of composition": they were illiterate. From The Singer of Tales: [Albert] Lord sees the existence of literacy and written/printed texts as deadly-- not to the songs themselves, but to the method of composition by which they are realised [which in the end amounts to the same thing]--schools, cities, and literacy eventually put [an end] to it in urban areas "We must remember that the oral poet has no idea of a fixed model text to serve as his guide. He has models enough but they are not fixed and he has no idea of memorizing them in a fixed form. Every time he hears a song sung, it is different" Once the idea that there is a fixed text enters the bard's minds, they stop being able to compose new versions on the fly. Also presumably they can't remember the full 13-thousand line epics because they won't be able to remember the exact text. Again from Wikipedia: in 1935 Lord asked Međedović to recall a song he heard only once, for this he asked another guslar, Mumin Vlahovljak of Plevlje, to sing his song "Bećiragić Meho", unknown to Međedović. After he heard the song of 2,294 lines, he sung it himself, but made it almost three times longer, 6,313 lines I wrote about this from a blog post by Sam Kriss, and I was struck enough to fact-check it. The extent to which the memory and abilities of illiterate folks can be better than literate folks is very surprising to me. It seems possible to me that literate people could replicate the feats of the guslar. But they'd have to hear the song many different times, sung somewhat differently by many different people, and resist the temptation to write it down to try to remember it as they learned. Lord's speculation on how to learn to be a bard: We must remember that the oral poet has no idea of a fixed model text to serve as his guide. He has models enough but they are not fixed and he has no idea of memorizing them in a fixed form. Every time he hears a song sung, it is different." p.22 "Sometimes there are published versions of songs in the background. [Named Infor...

Link to original articleWelcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Does literacy remove your ability to be a bard as good as Homer?, published by Adrià Garriga-alonso on January 19, 2024 on LessWrong. Epistemic status: probably we did lose the ability to memorize long songs due to improper practice, but it may be possible to enjoy the benefits of literacy and epic memory simultaneously. Thanks to Niels uit de Bos for better links and editing, and to Ryan Kidd for encouragement to post. You probably know that Socrates thought writing was terrible and it would destroy people's ability to memorize things, because now they're written down and don't need to be memorized. I always thought that was a little ridiculous, maybe the effect was there and memorization would be less good, but not to a crazy extent. Well, Milman Parry and Albert Lord traveled to Yugoslavia in the 1930-1950s, and recorded performance of gusle-player (guslar) bards. The greatest of them was Avdo Međedović. From Wikipedia: At Parry's request, Avdo sang songs he already knew and some songs he heard in front of Parry, convincing him that someone Homer-like could produce a poem so long. Avdo dictated, over five days, a version of the well-known theme The Wedding of Meho Smailagić that was 12,323 lines long, saying on the fifth day to Nikola (Parry's assistant on the journey) that he knew even longer songs. On another occasion, he sang over several days an epic of 13,331 lines. He said he had several others of similar length in his repertoire. In Parry's first tour, over 80,000 lines were transcribed. All of the bards, which recited incredibly long songs from memory and composed slightly new lyrics on the fly "at the rate of [10-20] ten-syllable lines a minute", and they could not have been geniuses, because there were too many of them. Instead, they had a "special technique of composition": they were illiterate. From The Singer of Tales: [Albert] Lord sees the existence of literacy and written/printed texts as deadly-- not to the songs themselves, but to the method of composition by which they are realised [which in the end amounts to the same thing]--schools, cities, and literacy eventually put [an end] to it in urban areas "We must remember that the oral poet has no idea of a fixed model text to serve as his guide. He has models enough but they are not fixed and he has no idea of memorizing them in a fixed form. Every time he hears a song sung, it is different" Once the idea that there is a fixed text enters the bard's minds, they stop being able to compose new versions on the fly. Also presumably they can't remember the full 13-thousand line epics because they won't be able to remember the exact text. Again from Wikipedia: in 1935 Lord asked Međedović to recall a song he heard only once, for this he asked another guslar, Mumin Vlahovljak of Plevlje, to sing his song "Bećiragić Meho", unknown to Međedović. After he heard the song of 2,294 lines, he sung it himself, but made it almost three times longer, 6,313 lines I wrote about this from a blog post by Sam Kriss, and I was struck enough to fact-check it. The extent to which the memory and abilities of illiterate folks can be better than literate folks is very surprising to me. It seems possible to me that literate people could replicate the feats of the guslar. But they'd have to hear the song many different times, sung somewhat differently by many different people, and resist the temptation to write it down to try to remember it as they learned. Lord's speculation on how to learn to be a bard: We must remember that the oral poet has no idea of a fixed model text to serve as his guide. He has models enough but they are not fixed and he has no idea of memorizing them in a fixed form. Every time he hears a song sung, it is different." p.22 "Sometimes there are published versions of songs in the background. [Named Infor...

We're so back, as they say, and we've recruited some struggle favorites to join us for a most unseemly return. We gather in Park Slope with 3 microphones, 4 dudes, and 1 Lauren. We talk about the text, for once. We talk about sojourns abroad and encounters with Kentuckian gastronomy. We perform close readings then forget our reading entirely. We sing at the end, too, which you'll hear if you make it all the way there. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ourstrugglepod/message

The ladies discuss Netflix's Beckham and Sam Kriss on Renee Girard in Harper's.

Sam Kriss has a post on nerds and hipsters. I think he gets the hipsters right, but bungles the nerds. Hipsters, he says, are an information sorting algorithm. They discover things, then place them on the altar of Fame so everyone else can enjoy them. Before the Beatles were so canonical that they were impossible to miss, someone had to go to some dingy bar in Liverpool, think “Hey, these guys are really good”, and report that fact somewhere everyone else could see it. https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/contra-kriss-on-nerds-and-hipsters  

In this episode with cult fave 6'4" writer SAM KRISS, all motifs are on the table - literally. Drew has been heroically managing dry January by replacing alcohol with weird food and on the Wednesday evening we gathered at the Park Slope Manse, he presented Sam and Lauren with the most deranged assortment of snacks imaginable. As we loudly munched our way through the spread (to the great delight of audiophile listeners, we're sure), the madness of the snacks began to infect us, resulting in folie a trois to remember. cheat sheet: 2:00 - Drew itemizes our meal and Sam explains how it's possible to be British and Jewish at the same time. 46:00 - Sam delivers a startlingly lucid lecture on Kristeva's the sign and the symbol and explains how, hopefully, literature is headed back to the Middle Ages. This has to do with Knausgaard! 1:30:00 - We declare Sam to be the UK's new Blurber in Chief and Sam flawlessly impersonates American TikTok teens. 2:00:00 - Complete madness sets in at this point; not sure what we were talking about here. Many thanks to Sam for joining us! Listeners: Feedback about the audio quality is NOT welcome. PLUGS: Subscribe to Sam's substack Help us enliven our snack budget with mischief --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/ourstrugglepod/message

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In this week's episode: Can Rishi catch up? Katy Balls and Kate Andrews discuss Rishi Sunak's mad dash to catch up with his rival, Liz Truss in the polls (0.55) Also this week: Is it time the UK severed ties with Chinese-made tech? Charles Parton argues this in the magazine this week. He is joined by Dr Alexi Drew, a consultant in emerging technologies and international relations (13.33) And finally:    What's not to love about country-pop music? Sam Kriss writes about this in the magazine. Joining him for the podcast is Rod Liddle, the associate editor at The Spectator (31.01) Hosted by William Moore. Produced by Natasha Feroze. Subscribe to The Spectator today and get a £20 Amazon gift voucher: www.spectator.co.uk/voucher

In this week's episode: Can Rishi catch up? Katy Balls and Kate Andrews discuss Rishi Sunak's mad dash to catch up with his rival, Liz Truss in the polls (0.55) Also this week: Is it time the UK severed ties with Chinese-made tech? Charles Parton argues this in the magazine this week. He is joined by Dr Alexi Drew, a consultant in emerging technologies and international relations (13.33) And finally:    What's not to love about country-pop music? Sam Kriss writes about this in the magazine. Joining him for the podcast is Rod Liddle, the associate editor at The Spectator (31.01) Hosted by William Moore. Produced by Natasha Feroze. Subscribe to The Spectator today and get a £20 Amazon gift voucher: www.spectator.co.uk/voucher

On reviews of our book, The End of the End of History   A year since the book came out, and two years since we finished writing it, we take a look at published reviews the book has received and respond to them.   Questions addressed include: have we overstated our case? Do we ignore the importance of the 1970s in favour of the 1990s? Might war matter more than class struggle? Is it useful to understood History in the metaphysical/Hegelian sense? Should we be less modernist and dispense with the politics inherited from 1848-1980s? And are we too critical of left-populism?   Reviews War at the End of History, Adam Tooze, Chartbook 109 The End of the End of the End, Sam Kriss, First Things Book Review: The End of the End of History, Jason C. Mueller, Critical Sociology How long is the end of history?, Connor Harney, Platypus Beginning of the End, or End of the Beginning?, Park McDougald, American Affairs Book Review: The End of the End of History, Dan Taylor, Marx & Philosophy Review of Books Certainly the End of Something or Other, Joseph Keegin, The Bellow New Perspectives journal roundtable (forthcoming) on The End of the End of History: Daniel Zamora, Anton Jäger, Richard Sakwa, Nicholas Kiersey 

In this live-recorded episode of What Is X?, Justin meets up with the writer Sam Kriss at a (sometimes noisy) pub in London to chat about conspiracy theories. What makes a conspiracy theory conspiratorial? What is the relationship between conspiracy theories and philosophical skepticism?  Do we have a responsibility to correct misinformation, or should we try to embrace the right to be wrong? Over the course of this ninety-minute conversation, Justin and Sam amble through some conspiracy-theory best hits: the JFK assaassination, 9/11 truthers' interest in chemtrails, Jeffery Epstein, COVID lab-leaks, "New Chronology," and the belief that all mountains were once trees—and even talk about some of their favorites. They wonder together about the relationship between the narratives spun by conspiracy theorists and those of novelists, poets and dreamers—might conspiracy theory be a kind of literature? Could one understand the impulse behind conspiracy theories like those of the "flat earthers" or those who believe the real sun has been replaced with an LED simulacrum be understood not as madness or pure irrationality, but as something akin to a basic human desire for cosmological knowledge?

This text is from the Ardent Press book, "Is Space the Place?," available at LittleBlackCart.com Immediatism.com My other podcast, PointingTexts.org Feedback and requests to Cory@Immediatism.com, and your comment may be shared in a future episode. Donate

Sam Kriss's article on the depletion of desire in film, queer and capitalistic intersectionality, Eyes Wide Shut as the best Christmas film ever made, viable monogamy, porn and taboo, inoffensive incest, hookup apps and mystery. 

Ryan has been off on vacation for the past 2 weeks, so we are unlocking this one as a treat while we get the next one produced. This time we talk about both the fake smear campaign version of critical race theory as invented by professional conservative liars, and the actual body of thought. Enjoy! Links to articles we mentioned: one by Sam Kriss, one by Damon Linker, and one by John Ganz.

Dr. Chelsea Bond is a Munanjahli and South Sea Islander woman and a senior lecturer at the University of Queensland. She's worked and researched extensively in the area of Aboriginal health and regularly writes and speaks about race and racism in Australia today. In this conversation, Chelsea reflects on how the recent Black Lives Matter uprising has played out in Australia, her personal experiences with the police, the fierceness of Black women in this struggle and the intersection of racial power structures and class. If you’ve got the means please support this show by becoming a Patron Join the LIASYO Facebook group here please and thank you I’m performing at Easey Comedy this Thursday night, you can stream it via Zoom @drcbond Chelsea's radio show Wild Black Women on Brisbane's 989FM  ARTICLE: In Australia, black lives do matter by Aaron Patrick [$] ARTICLE: Dr. Chelsea Bond delivers a masterclass in Indigenous excellence by Nat Cromb & Luke Pearson ARTICLE: How to learn from Indigenous people about the Black Lives Matter movement in Australia by Tahnee Jash ARTICLE: 'Anger has the hour': How long must Indigenous Australia wait for change by Stan Grant ARTICLE: White skin, black squares by Sam Kriss  ARTICLE: Class is the new black: The dangers of an obsession with the 'Aboriginal middle class' by Dr. Chelsea Bond ARTICLE: If Black men could talk: why we need an accurate portrayal of urban Indigenous masculinity by Dr. Chelsea Bond Cause of the Week: Inala Wangarra (inalawangarra.com.au)

In the full episode, Doug and Derick continue their discussion of tailism, with some detours into their podcasting history and Billy Wilder’s 1961 film One, Two, Three… To listen to this episode in its entirety support us on Patreon. The Sam Kriss essay referred to in the episode can be found here: https://samkriss.com/2020/01/05/teenage-bloodbath-the-2010s-in-review/

Billy and Kyle are joined by special guest Jasmine. We discuss Torts, Hillary's new book, Trash TV, cigarettes, and Kingdom Hearts. Articles discussed are by Sam Kriss.(http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/hillary-clinton-what-happened-review_us_59c16721e4b0186c22066d72) and Chris Lehmann (https://thebaffler.com/blessed-and-brightest/what-happened). Song Credits: Silver- Caribou Golden Arrow- Darkside American Dream- LCD Soundsystem

Amber A'Lee Frost and Sam Kriss absorb a rare piece of good news: the British election result.

Amber A'Lee Frost and Sam Kriss absorb a rare piece of good news: the British election result.

We talk to writer, essayist and extremely smart (not JUST because of his British accent) person Sam Kriss about the British elections. Who will win? Why? When? How? Where? Why do Donald Trump and Theresa cling to each other, physically? And spiritually? Is Barack Obama more like Corbyn or Le Pen? The answer just might surprise you! Plus Gabe and I talk about public transportation, the movie Seven, the number 7, My (literal) best friend's wedding and more.

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The full trap in effect, plus special guest Sam Kriss (@sam_kriss), all of us covering the inauguration of President Wario. Weak chinned neo-Nazi Richard Spencer got his head caved in, protesters burned a limo, Colby became an anarchist, irony was shot through the head, and the gang went to Red Lobster for a lovely meal.

Sam Kriss joins us to discuss a bizarre Twitter rant that is being exalted by members of the liberal establishment. Is our interview the real Federalist Paper? Stick around to find out. Also, President Obama is continuing on issuing new environmental regulations. But like Sisyphus at this point, all his work may be for not, since President-elect Trump has already promised to undo the latest bit of rulemaking aimed at protecting our planet. That story coming up in our Sludge Report.And the long-arm of deregulation has its claws poised to sink into rulemaking at every level of the US government. Plus, federal workers might be at the center of a Scott Walker-style assault on their rights. We’ll tell you all, in a wonky edition of the People’s Bulletin.

Sam Kriss joins us to discuss a bizarre Twitter rant that is being exalted by members of the liberal establishment. Is our interview the real Federalist Paper? Stick around to find out. Also, President Obama is continuing on issuing new environmental regulations. But like Sisyphus at this point, all his work may be for not, since President-elect Trump has already promised to undo the latest bit of rulemaking aimed at protecting our planet. That story coming up in our Sludge Report.And the long-arm of deregulation has its claws poised to sink into rulemaking at every level of the US government. Plus, federal workers might be at the center of a Scott Walker-style assault on their rights. We’ll tell you all, in a wonky edition of the People’s Bulletin.

The DEA is running a confidential sources program that is vulnerable to abuse and fraud. Meanwhile, the FBI has decreased its use of a certain surveillance authority since the Edward Snowden revelations. Those stories in a Classified SessionAn update on the status of every American leftist’s favourite Englishman. Jeremy Corbyn won the challenge to his leadership, and we’ll be talking about the Labour Party with British Writer and Journalist, Sam Kriss.And it’s Friday, so someone is going in the Garbage Can. This week’s edition has a special theme related to the Wells Fargo scam. A Republican Member of the House Financial Services Committee is going in the Can.

Carl interviews UK writer Sam Kriss on stage before a live audience at Genius. Sam discusses Labour Party Leader Jeremy Corbyn's victory over Owen Smith then uses Lacanian psychoanalysis to diagnose Carl's sexual pathologies. Also, Carl gives his take on the five pivotal moments of the first Presidential debate.

The DEA is running a confidential sources program that is vulnerable to abuse and fraud. Meanwhile, the FBI has decreased its use of a certain surveillance authority since the Edward Snowden revelations. Those stories in a Classified SessionAn update on the status of every American leftist’s favourite Englishman. Jeremy Corbyn won the challenge to his leadership, and we’ll be talking about the Labour Party with British Writer and Journalist, Sam Kriss.And it’s Friday, so someone is going in the Garbage Can. This week’s edition has a special theme related to the Wells Fargo scam. A Republican Member of the House Financial Services Committee is going in the Can.

2016, NEW YORK CITY -- Flanked by Virgil Texas and Sam Kriss, the Chapo boys storm Genius HQ in New York, NY for a sold-out, anti-papist extravaganza. A night of revelry: Celebrity readings of David Brooks and Boss Douthat, the premiere of "Over the Top," the first piece by Chapo Motion Pictures, a psychotherapy break between Sam and Carl Diggler, and a public struggle session after the boys are legally required to share angry messages of the Trap's answering machine. The link to the short film, password, "chapo": https://vimeo.com/183855921 NEXT: Come to Caroline's Monday, 9/26, for Chapo vs. The First Debate.

Bernie Sanders supporters are finding their own ways of coping with seeing their candidate endorse Hillary Clinton. One group is planning to digest it all by eating a lot of beans and stinking up the convention. With Farts. Ugh.Then, the Two Sams add a third Sam to the mix. Sam Kriss, a UK-based freelance journalist joins us to talk about the post-Brexit dust settling. We chat about the new British PM, Theresa May, and Jeremy Corbyn’s future.And later, an extended classified session to talk about a brand new government surveillance program set to be “fully operational” at the end of the year, and a federal court ruling that could ground one of police’s favorite spy tools.

Bernie Sanders supporters are finding their own ways of coping with seeing their candidate endorse Hillary Clinton. One group is planning to digest it all by eating a lot of beans and stinking up the convention. With Farts. Ugh.Then, the Two Sams add a third Sam to the mix. Sam Kriss, a UK-based freelance journalist joins us to talk about the post-Brexit dust settling. We chat about the new British PM, Theresa May, and Jeremy Corbyn’s future.And later, an extended classified session to talk about a brand new government surveillance program set to be “fully operational” at the end of the year, and a federal court ruling that could ground one of police’s favorite spy tools.

In this week's history segment, Tim and Tom talk about Easter, both the ancient and modern traditions. They look at a great essay by British writer Sam Kriss about Neil deGrasse Tyson, and they look back at a wonderful little film that NASA produced in 1975 starring the great Orson Welles. All that and the magic numbers.