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It's a small world. The great David Rieff came to my San Francisco studio today for in person interview about his new anti-woke polemic Desire and Fate. And half way through our conversation, he brought up Daniel Bessner's This Is America piece which Bessner discussed on yesterday's show. I'm not sure what that tells us about wokeness, a subject which Rieff and I aren't in agreement. For him, it's the thing-in-itself which make sense of our current cultural malaise. Thus Desire and Fate, his attempt (with a great intro from John Banville) to wake us up from Wokeness. For me, it's a distraction. I've included the full transcript below. Lots of good stuff to chew on. Keen On America is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. 5 KEY TAKEAWAYS * Rieff views "woke" ideology as primarily American and post-Protestant in nature, rather than stemming solely from French philosophy, emphasizing its connections to self-invention and subjective identity.* He argues that woke culture threatens high culture but not capitalism, noting that corporations have readily embraced a "baudlerized" version of identity politics that avoids class discussions.* Rieff sees woke culture as connected to the wellness movement, with both sharing a preoccupation with "psychic safety" and the metaphorical transformation of experience in which "words” become a form of “violence."* He suggests young people's material insecurity contributes to their focus on identity, as those facing bleak economic prospects turn inward when they "can't make their way in the world."* Rieff characterizes woke ideology as "apocalyptic but not pessimistic," contrasting it with his own genuine pessimism which he considers more realistic about human nature and more cheerful in its acceptance of life's limitations. FULL TRANSCRIPTAndrew Keen: Hello everybody, as we digest Trump 2.0, we don't talk that much these days about woke and woke ideology. There was a civil war amongst progressives, I think, on the woke front in 2023 and 2024, but with Donald Trump 2.0 and his various escapades, let's just talk these days about woke. We have a new book, however, on the threat of woke by my guest, David Rieff. It's called Desire and Fate. He wrote it in 2023, came out in late 2024. David's visiting the Bay Area. He's an itinerant man traveling from the East Coast to Latin America and Europe. David, welcome to Keen on America. Do you regret writing this book given what's happened in the last few months in the United States?David Rieff: No, not at all, because I think that the road to moral and intellectual hell is trying to censor yourself according to what you think is useful. There's a famous story of Jean Paul Sartre that he said to the stupefaction of a journalist late in his life that he'd always known about the gulag, and the journalist pretty surprised said, well, why didn't you say anything? And Sartre said so as not to demoralize the French working class. And my own view is, you know, you say what you have to say about this and if I give some aid and comfort to people I don't like, well, so be it. Having said that, I also think a lot of these woke ideas have their, for all of Trump's and Trump's people's fierce opposition to woke, some of the identity politics, particularly around Jewish identity seems to me not that very different from woke. Strangely they seem to have taken, for example, there's a lot of the talk about anti-semitism on college campuses involves student safety which is a great woke trope that you feel unsafe and what people mean by that is not literally they're going to get shot or beaten up, they mean that they feel psychically unsafe. It's part of the kind of metaphorization of experience that unfortunately the United States is now completely in the grips of. But the same thing on the other side, people like Barry Weiss, for example, at the Free Press there, they talk in the same language of psychic safety. So I'm not sure there's, I think there are more similarities than either side is comfortable with.Andrew Keen: You describe Woke, David, as a cultural revolution and you associated in the beginning of the book with something called Lumpen-Rousseauism. As we joked before we went live, I'm not sure if there's anything in Rousseau which isn't Lumpen. But what exactly is this cultural revolution? And can we blame it on bad French philosophy or Swiss French?David Rieff: Well, Swiss-French philosophy, you know exactly. There is a funny anecdote, as I'm sure you know, that Rousseau made a visit to Edinburgh to see Hume and there's something in Hume's diaries where he talks about Rousseau pacing up and down in front of the fire and suddenly exclaiming, but David Hume is not a bad man. And Hume notes in his acerbic way, Rousseau was like walking around without his skin on. And I think some of the woke sensitivity stuff is very much people walking around without their skin on. They can't stand the idea of being offended. I don't see it as much - of course, the influence of that version of cultural relativism that the French like Deleuze and Guattari and other people put forward is part of the story, but I actually see it as much more of a post-Protestant thing. This idea, in that sense, some kind of strange combination of maybe some French philosophy, but also of the wellness movement, of this notion that health, including psychic health, was the ultimate good in a secular society. And then the other part, which again, it seems to be more American than French, which is this idea, and this is particularly true in the trans movement, that you can be anything you want to be. And so that if you feel yourself to be a different gender, well, that's who you are. And what matters is your own subjective sense of these things, and it's up to you. The outside world has no say in it, it's what you feel. And that in a sense, what I mean by post-Protestant is that, I mean, what's the difference between Protestantism and Catholicism? The fundamental difference is, it seems to me, that in Roman Catholic tradition, you need the priest to intercede with God, whereas in Protestant tradition, it is, except for the Anglicans, but for most of Protestantism, it's you and God. And in that sense it seems to me there are more of what I see in woke than this notion that some of the right-wing people like Chris Rufo and others have that this is cultural French cultural Marxism making its insidious way through the institutions.Andrew Keen: It's interesting you talk about the Protestant ethic and you mentioned Hume's remark about Rousseau not having his skin on. Do you think that Protestantism enabled people to grow thick skins?David Rieff: I mean, the Calvinist idea certainly did. In fact, there were all these ideas in Protestant culture, at least that's the classical interpretation of deferred gratification. Capitalism was supposed to be the work ethic, all of that stuff that Weber talks about. But I think it got in the modern version. It became something else. It stopped being about those forms of disciplines and started to be about self-invention. And in a sense, there's something very American about that because after all you know it's the Great Gatsby. It's what's the famous sentence of F. Scott Fitzgerald's: there are no second acts in American lives.Andrew Keen: This is the most incorrect thing anyone's ever said about America. I'm not sure if he meant it to be incorrect, did he? I don't know.David Rieff: I think what's true is that you get the American idea, you get to reinvent yourself. And this notion of the dream, the dream become reality. And many years ago when I was spending a lot of time in LA in the late 80s, early 90s, at LAX, there was a sign from the then mayor, Tom Bradley, about how, you know, if you can dream it, it can be true. And I think there's a lot in identitarian woke idea which is that we can - we're not constricted by history or reality. In fact, it's all the present and the future. And so to me again, woke seems to me much more recognizable as something American and by extension post-Protestant in the sense that you see the places where woke is most powerful are in the other, what the encampment kids would call settler colonies, Australia and Canada. And now in the UK of course, where it seems to me by DI or EDI as they call it over there is in many ways stronger in Britain even than it was in the US before Trump.Andrew Keen: Does it really matter though, David? I mean, that's my question. Does it matter? I mean it might matter if you have the good or the bad fortune to teach at a small, expensive liberal arts college. It might matter with some of your dinner parties in Tribeca or here in San Francisco, but for most people, who cares?David Rieff: It doesn't matter. I think it matters to culture and so what you think culture is worth, because a lot of the point of this book was to say there's nothing about woke that threatens capitalism, that threatens the neo-liberal order. I mean it's turning out that Donald Trump is a great deal bigger threat to the neoliberal order. Woke was to the contrary - woke is about talking about everything but class. And so a kind of baudlerized, de-radicalized version of woke became perfectly fine with corporate America. That's why this wonderful old line hard lefty Adolph Reed Jr. says somewhere that woke is about diversifying the ruling class. But I do think it's a threat to high culture because it's about equity. It's about representation. And so elite culture, which I have no shame in proclaiming my loyalty to, can't survive the woke onslaught. And it hasn't, in my view. If you look at just the kinds of books that are being written, the kinds of plays that are been put on, even the opera, the new operas that are being commissioned, they're all about representing the marginalized. They're about speaking for your group, whatever that group is, and doing away with various forms of cultural hierarchy. And I'm with Schoenberg: if it's for everybody, if it's art, Schoenberg said it's not for everybody, and if it's for everybody it's not art. And I think woke destroys that. Woke can live with schlock. I'm sorry, high culture can live with schlock, it always has, it always will. What it can't live with is kitsch. And by which I mean kitsch in Milan Kundera's definition, which is to have opinions that you feel better about yourself for holding. And that I think is inimical to culture. And I think woke is very destructive of those traditions. I mean, in the most obvious sense, it's destructive of the Western tradition, but you know, the high arts in places like Japan or Bengal, I don't think it's any more sympathetic to those things than it is to Shakespeare or John Donne or whatever. So yeah, I think it's a danger in that sense. Is it a danger to the peace of the world? No, of course not.Andrew Keen: Even in cultural terms, as you explain, it is an orthodoxy. If you want to work with the dominant cultural institutions, the newspapers, the universities, the publishing houses, you have to play by those rules, but the great artists, poets, filmmakers, musicians have never done that, so all it provides, I mean you brought up Kundera, all it provides is something that independent artists, creative people will sneer at, will make fun of, as you have in this new book.David Rieff: Well, I hope they'll make fun of it. But on the other hand, I'm an old guy who has the means to sneer. I don't have to please an editor. Someone will publish my books one way or another, whatever ones I have left to write. But if you're 25 years old, maybe you're going to sneer with your pals in the pub, but you're gonna have to toe the line if you want to be published in whatever the obvious mainstream place is and you're going to be attacked on social media. I think a lot of people who are very, young people who are skeptical of this are just so afraid of being attacked by their peers on various social media that they keep quiet. I don't know that it's true that, I'd sort of push back on that. I think non-conformists will out. I hope it's true. But I wonder, I mean, these traditions, once they die, they're very hard to rebuild. And, without going full T.S. Eliot on you, once you don't think you're part of the past, once the idea is that basically, pretty much anything that came before our modern contemporary sense of morality and fairness and right opinion is to be rejected and that, for example, the moral character of the artist should determine whether or not the art should be paid attention to - I don't know how you come back from that or if you come back from that. I'm not convinced you do. No, other arts will be around. And I mean, if I were writing a critical review of my own book, I'd say, look, this culture, this high culture that you, David Rieff, are writing an elegy for, eulogizing or memorializing was going to die anyway, and we're at the beginning of another Gutenbergian epoch, just as Gutenberg, we're sort of 20 years into Marshall McLuhan's Gutenberg galaxy, and these other art forms will come, and they won't be like anything else. And that may be true.Andrew Keen: True, it may be true. In a sense then, to extend that critique, are you going full T.S. Eliot in this book?David Rieff: Yeah, I think Eliot was right. But it's not just Eliot, there are people who would be for the wokesters more acceptable like Mandelstam, for example, who said you're part of a conversation that's been going on long before you were born, that's going to be going on after you are, and I think that's what art is. I think the idea that we make some completely new thing is a childish fantasy. I think you belong to a tradition. There are periods - look, this is, I don't find much writing in English in prose fiction very interesting. I have to say I read the books that people talk about because I'm trying to understand what's going on but it doesn't interest me very much, but again, there have been periods of great mediocrity. Think of a period in the late 17th century in England when probably the best poet was this completely, rightly, justifiably forgotten figure, Colley Cibber. You had the great restoration period and then it all collapsed, so maybe it'll be that way. And also, as I say, maybe it's just as with the print revolution, that this new culture of social media will produce completely different forms. I mean, everything is mortal, not just us, but cultures and civilizations and all the rest of it. So I can imagine that, but this is the time I live in and the tradition I come from and I'm sorry it's gone, and I think what's replacing it is for the most part worse.Andrew Keen: You're critical in the book of what you, I'm quoting here, you talk about going from the grand inquisitor to the grand therapist. But you're very critical of the broader American therapeutic culture of acute sensitivity, the thin skin nature of, I guess, the Rousseau in this, whatever, it's lumpen Rousseauanism. So how do you interpret that without psychologizing, or are you psychologizing in the book? How are you making sense of our condition? In other words, can one critique criticize therapeutic culture without becoming oneself therapeutic?David Rieff: You mean the sort of Pogo line, we've met the enemy and it is us. Well, I suppose there's some truth to that. I don't know how much. I think that woke is in some important sense a subset of the wellness movement. And the wellness movement after all has tens and tens of millions of people who are in one sense or another influenced by it. And I think health, including psychic health, and we've moved from wellness as corporal health to wellness as being both soma and psyche. So, I mean, if that's psychologizing, I certainly think it's drawing the parallel or seeing woke in some ways as one of the children of the god of wellness. And that to me, I don't know how therapeutic that is. I think it's just that once you feel, I'm interested in what people feel. I'm not necessarily so interested in, I mean, I've got lots of opinions, but what I think I'm better at than having opinions is trying to understand why people think what they think. And I do think that once health becomes the ultimate good in a secular society and once death becomes the absolutely unacceptable other, and once you have the idea that there's no real distinction of any great validity between psychic and physical wellness, well then of course sensitivity to everything becomes almost an inevitable reaction.Andrew Keen: I was reading the book and I've been thinking about a lot of movements in America which are trying to bring people together, dealing with America, this divided America, as if it's a marriage in crisis. So some of the most effective or interesting, I think, thinkers on this, like Arlie Hochschild in Berkeley, use the language of therapy to bring or to try to bring America back together, even groups like the Braver Angels. Can therapy have any value or that therapeutic culture in a place like America where people are so bitterly divided, so hateful towards one another?David Rieff: Well, it's always been a country where, on the one hand, people have been, as you say, incredibly good at hatred and also a country of people who often construe themselves as misfits and heretics from the Puritans forward. And on the other hand, you have that small-town American idea, which sometimes I think is as important to woke and DI as as anything else which is that famous saying of small town America of all those years ago which was if you don't have something nice to say don't say anything at all. And to some extent that is, I think, a very powerful ancestor of these movements. Whether they're making any headway - of course I hope they are, but Hochschild is a very interesting figure, but I don't, it seems to me it's going all the other way, that people are increasingly only talking to each other.Andrew Keen: What this movement seems to want to do is get beyond - I use this word carefully, I'm not sure if they use it but I'm going to use it - ideology and that we're all prisoners of ideology. Is woke ideology or is it a kind of post-ideology?David Rieff: Well, it's a redemptive idea, a restorative idea. It's an idea that in that sense, there's a notion that it's time for the victims, for the first to be last and the last to be first. I mean, on some level, it is as simple as that. On another level, as I say, I do think it has a lot to do with metaphorization of experience, that people say silence is violence and words are violence and at that point what's violence? I mean there is a kind of level to me where people have gotten trapped in the kind of web of their own metaphors and now are living by them or living shackled to them or whatever image you're hoping for. But I don't know what it means to get beyond ideology. What, all men will be brothers, as in the Beethoven-Schiller symphony? I mean, it doesn't seem like that's the way things are going.Andrew Keen: Is the problem then, and I'm thinking out loud here, is the problem politics or not enough politics?David Rieff: Oh, I think the problem is that now we don't know, we've decided that everything is part, the personal is the political, as the feminists said, 50, 60 years ago. So the personal's political, so the political is the personal. So you have to live the exemplary moral life, or at least the life that doesn't offend anybody or that conforms to whatever the dominant views of what good opinions are, right opinions are. I think what we're in right now is much more the realm of kind of a new set of moral codes, much more than ideology in the kind of discrete sense of politics.Andrew Keen: Now let's come back to this idea of being thin-skinned. Why are people so thin-skinned?David Rieff: Because, I mean, there are lots of things to say about that. One thing, of course, that might be worth saying, is that the young generations, people who are between, let's say, 15 and 30, they're in real material trouble. It's gonna be very hard for them to own a house. It's hard for them to be independent and unless the baby boomers like myself will just transfer every penny to them, which doesn't seem very likely frankly, they're going to live considerably worse than generations before. So if you can't make your way in the world then maybe you make your way yourself or you work on yourself in that sort of therapeutic sense. You worry about your own identity because the only place you have in the world in some way is yourself, is that work, that obsession. I do think some of these material questions are important. There's a guy you may know who's not at all woke, a guy who teaches at the University of Washington called Danny Bessner. And I just did a show with him this morning. He's a smart guy and we have a kind of ironic correspondence over email and DM. And I once said to him, why are you so bitter about everything? And he said, you want to know why? Because I have two children and the likelihood is I'll never get a teaching job that won't require a three hour commute in order for me to live anywhere that I can afford to live. And I thought, and he couldn't be further from woke, he's a kind of Jacobin guy, Jacobin Magazine guy, and if he's left at all, it's kind of old left, but I think a lot of people feel that, that they feel their practical future, it looks pretty grim.Andrew Keen: But David, coming back to the idea of art, they're all suited to the world of art. They don't have to buy a big house and live in the suburbs. They can become poets. They can become filmmakers. They can put their stuff up on YouTube. They can record their music online. There are so many possibilities.David Rieff: It's hard to monetize that. Maybe now you're beginning to sound like the people you don't like. Now you're getting to sound like a capitalist.Andrew Keen: So what? Well, I don't care if I sound like a capitalist. You're not going to starve to death.David Rieff: Well, you might not like, I mean, it's fine to be a barista at 24. It's not so fine at 44. And are these people going to ever get out of this thing? I don't know. I wonder. Look, when I was starting as a writer, as long as you were incredibly diligent, and worked really hard, you could cobble together at least a basic living by accepting every assignment and people paid you bits and bobs of money, but put together, you could make a living. Now, the only way to make money, unless you're lucky enough to be on staff of a few remaining media outlets that remain, is you have to become an impresario, you have become an entrepreneur of your own stuff. And again, sure, do lots of people manage that? Yeah, but not as many as could have worked in that other system, and look at the fate of most newspapers, all folding. Look at the universities. We can talk about woke and how woke destroyed, in my view anyway, a lot of the humanities. But there's also a level in which people didn't want to study these things. So we're looking at the last generation in a lot places of a lot of these humanities departments and not just the ones that are associated with, I don't know, white supremacy or the white male past or whatever, but just the humanities full stop. So I know if that sounds like, maybe it sounds like a capitalist, but maybe it also sounds like you know there was a time when the poets - you know very well, poets never made a living, poets taught in universities. That's the way American poets made their money, including pretty famous poets like Eric Wolcott or Joseph Brodsky or writers, Toni Morrison taught at Princeton all those years, Joyce Carol Oates still alive, she still does. Most of these people couldn't make a living of their work and so the university provided that living.Andrew Keen: You mentioned Barry Weiss earlier. She's making a fortune as an anti-woke journalist. And Free Press seems to be thriving. Yascha Mounk's Persuasion is doing pretty well. Andrew Sullivan, another good example, making a fortune off of Substack. It seems as if the people willing to take risks, Barry Weiss leaving the New York Times, Andrew Sullivan leaving everything he's ever joined - that's...David Rieff: Look, are there going to be people who thrive in this new environment? Sure. And Barry Weiss turns out to be this kind of genius entrepreneur. She deserves full credit for that. Although even Barry Weiss, the paradox for me of Barry Weiss is, a lot of her early activism was saying that she felt unsafe with these anti-Israeli teachers at Columbia. So in a sense, she was using some of the same language as the woke use, psychic safety, because she didn't mean Joseph Massad was gonna come out from the blackboard and shoot her in the eye. She meant that she was offended and used the language of safety to describe that. And so in that sense, again, as I was saying to you earlier, I think there are more similarities here. And Trump, I think this is a genuine counterrevolution that Trump is trying to mount. I'm not very interested in the fascism, non-fascism debate. I'm rather skeptical of it.Andrew Keen: As Danny Bessner is. Yeah, I thought Danny's piece about that was brilliant.David Rieff: We just did a show about it today, that piece about why that's all rubbish. I was tempted, I wrote to a friend that guy you may know David Bell teaches French history -Andrew Keen: He's coming on the show next week. Well, you see, it's just a little community of like-minded people.David Rieff: There you go. Well, I wrote to David.Andrew Keen: And you mentioned his father in the book, Daniel.David Rieff: Yeah, well, his father is sort of one of the tutelary idols of the book. I had his father and I read his father and I learned an enormous amount. I think that book about the cultural contradictions of capitalism is one of the great prescient books about our times. But I wrote to David, I said, I actually sent him the Bessner piece which he was quite ambivalent about. But I said well, I'm not really convinced by the fascism of Trump, maybe just because Hitler read books, unlike Donald Trump. But it's a genuine counterrevolution. And what element will change the landscape in terms of DI and woke and identitarianism is not clear. These people are incredibly ambitious. They really mean to change this country, transform it.Andrew Keen: But from the book, David, Trump's attempts to cleanse, if that's the right word, the university, I would have thought you'd have rather admired that, all these-David Rieff: I agree with some of it.Andrew Keen: All these idiots writing the same article for 30 years about something that no one has any interest in.David Rieff: I look, my problem with Trump is that I do support a lot of that. I think some of the stuff that Christopher Rufo, one of the leading ideologues of this administration has uncovered about university programs and all of this crap, I think it's great that they're not paying for it anymore. The trouble is - you asked me before, is it that important? Is culture important compared to destroying the NATO alliance, blowing up the global trade regime? No. I don't think. So yeah, I like a lot of what they're doing about the university, I don't like, and I am very fiercely opposed to this crackdown on speech. That seems to be grotesque and revolting, but are they canceling supporting transgender theater in Galway? Yeah, I think it's great that they're canceling all that stuff. And so I'm not, that's my problem with Trump, is that some of that stuff I'm quite unashamedly happy about, but it's not nearly worth all the damage he's doing to this country and the world.Andrew Keen: Being very generous with your time, David. Finally, in the book you describe woke as, and I thought this was a very sharp way of describing it, describe it as being apocalyptic but not pessimistic. What did you mean by that? And then what is the opposite of woke? Would it be not apocalyptic, but cheerful?David Rieff: Well, I think genuine pessimists are cheerful, I would put myself among those. The model is Samuel Beckett, who just thinks things are so horrible that why not be cheerful about them, and even express one's pessimism in a relatively cheerful way. You remember the famous story that Thomas McCarthy used to tell about walking in the Luxembourg Gardens with Beckett and McCarthy says to him, great day, it's such a beautiful day, Sam. Beckett says, yeah, beautiful day. McCarthy says, makes you glad to be alive. And Beckett said, oh, I wouldn't go that far. And so, the genuine pessimist is quite cheerful. But coming back to woke, it's apocalyptic in the sense that everything is always at stake. But somehow it's also got this reformist idea that cultural revolution will cleanse away the sins of the supremacist patriarchal past and we'll head for the sunny uplands. I think I'm much too much of a pessimist to think that's possible in any regime, let alone this rather primitive cultural revolution called woke.Andrew Keen: But what would the opposite be?David Rieff: The opposite would be probably some sense that the best we're going to do is make our peace with the trash nature of existence, that life is finite in contrast with the wellness people who probably have a tendency towards the apocalyptic because death is an insult to them. So everything is staving off the bad news and that's where you get this idea that you can, like a lot of revolutions, you can change the nature of people. Look, the communist, Che Guevara talked about the new man. Well, I wonder if he thought it was so new when he was in Bolivia. I think these are - people need utopias, this is one of them, MAGA is another utopia by the way, and people don't seem to be able to do without them and that's - I wish it were otherwise but it isn't.Andrew Keen: I'm guessing the woke people would be offended by the idea of death, are they?David Rieff: Well, I think the woke people, in this synchronicity, people and a lot of people, they're insulted - how can this happen to me, wonderful me? And this is those jokes in the old days when the British could still be savage before they had to have, you know, Henry the Fifth be played by a black actor - why me? Well, why not you? That's just so alien to and it's probably alien to the American idea. You're supposed to - it's supposed to work out and the truth is it doesn't work out. But La Rochefoucauld says somewhere no one can stare for too long at death or the sun and maybe I'm asking too much.Andrew Keen: Maybe only Americans can find death unacceptable to use one of your words.David Rieff: Yes, perhaps.Andrew Keen: Well, David Rieff, congratulations on the new book. Fascinating, troubling, controversial as always. Desire and Fate. I know you're writing a book about Oppenheimer, very different kind of subject. We'll get you back on the show to talk Oppenheimer, where I guess there's not going to be a lot of Lumpen-Rousseauism.David Rieff: Very little, very little love and Rousseau in the quantum mechanics world, but thanks for having me.Keen On America is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit keenon.substack.com/subscribe

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Monday 7th April 2025.  This week we cover results from the Bridges Fun Run with Dean Menzies and Lauren French taking out the State 10km Road Championships and our much anticipated Bix four scoops bet. We also cover results from the Runningworks 3 Valleys Ultra and the Soul Runners Swan River Half.  We preview the upcoming Bunbury 3 Waters Running Festival with a potential bet in the works with our podcast pals, the Easy Double podcast.  And finally, we get to sit down with Jack Sirett, part time musician, part time runner and part time chef of the Let's Cook Running Team to talk all things music, running and his upcoming show this weekend.    This Is America: with Jack Sirett & Chris Nankervis on Saturday 12th April 2025 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM  https://www.trybooking.com/events/landing/1344372    Reach out and connect! Instagram: @warunningpod Email: warunningpodcast@gmail.com  Strava: https://www.strava.com/clubs/WARP

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Linktree: https://linktr.ee/AnalyticIn this segment of Notorious Mass Effect, host Analytic Dreamz delves into Kendrick Lamar's remarkable achievements at the 2025 Grammy Awards. Lamar clinched five awards for his track "Not Like Us," including Record of the Year, Song of the Year, Best Rap Performance, Best Rap Song, and Best Music Video, bringing his career total to 22 Grammy Awards, tying him with U2 and Vince Gill. His track also became only the second hip-hop song to win both Record and Song of the Year, following Childish Gambino's "This Is America." Analytic Dreamz explores the implications of these wins, discussing Lamar's upcoming Super Bowl LIX Halftime Show in New Orleans with expected setlist predictions, from the certainties like "Not Like Us" to the less likely "Euphoria." The segment also covers the ongoing feud with Drake, highlighted by the diss track's accusations and its cultural and legal ramifications, including Drake's lawsuits against Universal Music Group and Spotify. Additionally, Analytic Dreamz touches on Lamar's new album "GNX", his tour with SZA, and the symbolic elements of his Grammy night attire and acceptance speeches, emphasizing Lamar's commitment to his roots and the art of hip-hop. This segment provides a comprehensive look at Lamar's current status in music, his historic Grammy night, and what to expect from his future performances.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/analytic-dreamz-notorious-mass-effect/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brandsPrivacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

[PATREON EXCLUSIVE] Discussing the calamitous message music of the two thousand tens: BEYONCÉ (2013年) + TO PIMP A BUTTERFLY (2015年) + LEMONADE (2016年) + THIS IS AMERICA (2018年). Follow Vera on X: https://x.com/lovely_2_c_u And for the full episode, subscribe to I'M SO POPULAR on patreon.com/imsopopular (ISP S5.E08)

Johnny Gandelsman is not only one of the world's finest violinists, as comfortable playing contemporary works as he is interpreting pieces from the Western classical canon. He is also an inveterate musical innovator. A long-time member of Silkroad Ensemble and a co-founder of string quartet Brooklyn Rider, which celebrated its 20th anniversary this past year, Johnny has long championed the dissolution of genre boundaries to celebrate music's unique power to bridge cultural divides. Over the years he has collaborated with and played the works of musicians from the Middle East to Appalachia, along the way stretching his own skills to adapt his instrument to a host of musical traditions.Johnny has also been a driving force in the commissioning of new works for the concert stage, founding his own label, In a Circle Records, to produce and release new compositions. In the doldrums of the COVID lockdown, when musicians saw a year's worth of scheduled work vanish, he hatched a plan. He set out to find dozens of arts institutions and music presenters to partner with him to commission 22 composers from all over the country to create new works for the solo violin. Four years later, the project has now resulted in an album titled “This Is America: an Anthology 2020-2021,” a three-CD set with a 40-page booklet produced by In a Circle Records. Pitchfork raves, “This Is America stirs feelings about our country that are almost hard to recognize: pride, hope, and the simple relief of consensus reality.” Since the album's release, Johnny himself has been playing sections of the album all over the country in marathon performances at many of the institutions who partnered with him on the project. In this interview, Johnny describes how he shifted from being a young talent focused on a traditional soloist's career to becoming an adventurer, challenging classical music's conventions to prove that experimentation and community are as essential to music as technique.https://johnnygandelsman.bandcamp.com/album/this-is-america-an-anthology-2020-2021-icr023https://www.inacircle-records.com/

Welcome, to This Is America, September 27th, 2024. On this episode, we feature an interview with an organizer with Rural Organizing and Resilience (ROAR) and two collective members at Firestorm Books, both located in Western North Carolina, who speak about organizing autonomous mutual aid relief efforts in the wake of recent hurricanes. We then speak... Read Full Article

Welcome, to This Is America, October 4th, 2024. On this episode, first we have an interview with someone on the frontline of autonomous disaster relief efforts in so-called North Carolina with Triangle Mutual Aid. For support their efforts and read dispatches from TMA, go here. Margaret Killjoy also has a report out, an interview on... Read Full Article

Welcome, to This Is America, September 17th, 2024. On this episode, first we present an interview with a community member and participant in the local Really Really Free Market in Carrboro, North Carolina. We speak about the event’s history, and how people have pushed back against attempts by the city to shut it down. Next,... Read Full Article

Welcome, to This Is America, August 21st, 2024. In today’s episode, first we speak with the host of 12 Rules for What?, an antifascist podcast on the Channel Zero Network, about the wave of antifascist mobilizations against the far-Right following a series of anti-immigrant riots in the so-called United Kingdom, after the spread of viral... Read Full Article

Welcome, to This Is America, July 29th, 2024. In this episode first we present an interview on the case of the Boeing 5 in Ohio, anti-war activists who are facing charges for an action which shut down a Boeing facility for its role in the ongoing genocide of Palestinians. We then speak with organizers about... Read Full Article

Welcome, to This Is America, July 8th, 2024. On today’s episode, we speak first with Josh Fernandez, author of the new book, The Hands That Crafted the Bomb: The Making of a Lifelong Antifascist, out now on PM Press. We then speak with anarchist author and organizer Peter Gelderloos, about the recent debacle and fallout... Read Full Article

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Daniel Schmidt (Der Spiegel, This Is America) takes the train with host Thomas Emerick to Euro '96 in England for Die Mannschaft vs. The Three Lions. Frankfurt to Manchester and then Manchester to London provides plenty of time to examine the soccer balance between these countries in the century leading up to and since this UEFA European Championship semifinals thriller. Also, whose side to take on '90s Britpop beefs, confluence with political tides of Labour and the Tories, and the influence of British pop culture on Daniel while growing up in Northwest Germany and going to school in the UK. This is Remember That Game, the podcast about sporting events that take you on a journey and chart the path of the zeitgeist. I'm your host Thomas Emerick, enjoy the show. Follow Remember That Game for the full archive: Apple Spotify YouTube "Remember That Game" in search wherever you get your podcasts More from Daniel Schmidt: This Is America (Website to grab Daniel's book) Impressions from first days of the trial in New York (Der Spiegel) Interview with American journalist Wesley Lowery (Frankfurter Allgemeine) A bodybuilder is a sculptor, like Rodin or Michelangelo, Arnold Schwarzenegger once said. Is that correct? A visit to Muscle Beach in Miami (Die Zeit) More from England vs. Germany Euro '96 semifinals: Match Sheet: Germany 1, England 1 (7-6 PKs) (Transfermarkt) Match highlights from June 26, 1996 (YouTube) Alan Shearer scores, Thomas Häßler equalizes, Andreas Möller converts clinching PK All penalty kicks (YouTube) Knockout stage path for England Quarters: Defeat Spain in PKs Semis: Fall to Germany in PKs Knockout stage path for (post-reunification as of October 1990!) Germany Quarters: Defeat Croatia in the Croats' post-Yugoslavia major tournament debut Semis: Defeat England in PKs Finals: Defeat Czech Republic in the Czechs post-Czechoslovakia Euro tournament debut More on the Battle of Britpop Noel Gallagher on the Battle of Britpop (YouTube) Noel and Liam Gallagher of Oasis troll Blur's song "Parklife" at the '96 Brit Awards (YouTube) Blur's Damon Albarn on Oasis (YouTube) HOST RotoViz Contributor Thomas Emerick (@ThomasEmerick) Guest Der Spiegel Contributing Writer and Author of "This Is America" Daniel Schmidt (@dcschmidt) SPONSORS BetterHelp - This episode is brought to you by BetterHelp. Give online therapy a try at betterhelp.com/ROTOVIZ and get on your way to being your best self. Underdog Fantasy – Get a 100% deposit match on your first deposit up to $100 when you sign up at Underdogfantasy.com using this link or the promo code ROTOVIZ. Listeners of RotoViz Radio can save 10% on a one-year RotoViz subscription by visiting RotoViz.com/podcast or by using the promotional code "rvradio2024" at the time of purchase. Gametime - Download the Gametime app, create an account, and use code ROTOVIZ for $20 off SHOW NOTES RotoViz Radio provides the power for Remember That Game: Subscribe to the RotoViz Radio on YouTube Direct message: @ThomasEmerick Email: emericktc@gmail.com Subscribe: Remember That Game on YouTube Follow: Apple and Spotify Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Daniel Schmidt (Der Spiegel, This Is America) takes the train with host Thomas Emerick to Euro '96 in England for Die Mannschaft vs. The Three Lions. Frankfurt to Manchester and then Manchester to London provides plenty of time to examine the soccer balance between these countries in the century leading up to and since this UEFA European Championship semifinals thriller. Also, whose side to take on '90s Britpop beefs, confluence with political tides of Labour and the Tories, and the influence of British pop culture on Daniel while growing up in Northwest Germany and going to school in the UK. In 1996, Germany was the betting favorite and spoiled the party in England. Will the Brits return the favor in 2024 as the Germans host? This is Remember That Game, the podcast about sporting events that take you on a journey and chart the path of the zeitgeist. I'm your host Thomas Emerick, enjoy the show. Follow Remember That Game for the full archive: Apple Spotify YouTube "Remember That Game" in search wherever you get your podcasts More from Daniel Schmidt: This Is America (Website to grab Daniel's book) Impressions from first days of the trial in New York (Der Spiegel) Interview with American journalist Wesley Lowery (Frankfurter Allgemeine) A bodybuilder is a sculptor, like Rodin or Michelangelo, Arnold Schwarzenegger once said. Is that correct? A visit to Muscle Beach in Miami (Die Zeit) More from England vs. Germany Euro '96 semifinals: Match Sheet: Germany 1, England 1 (7-6 PKs) (Transfermarkt) Match highlights from June 26, 1996 (YouTube) Alan Shearer scores, Thomas Häßler equalizes, Andreas Möller converts clinching PK All penalty kicks (YouTube) Knockout stage path for England Quarters: Defeat Spain in PKs Semis: Fall to Germany in PKs Knockout stage path for (post-reunification as of October 1990!) Germany Quarters: Defeat Croatia in the Croats' post-Yugoslavia major tournament debut Semis: Defeat England in PKs Finals: Defeat Czech Republic in the Czechs post-Czechoslovakia Euro tournament debut More on the Battle of Britpop Noel Gallagher on the Battle of Britpop (YouTube) Noel and Liam Gallagher of Oasis troll Blur's song "Parklife" at the '96 Brit Awards (YouTube) Blur's Damon Albarn on Oasis (YouTube) HOST RotoViz Contributor Thomas Emerick (@ThomasEmerick) Guest Der Spiegel Contributing Writer and Author of "This Is America" Daniel Schmidt (@dcschmidt) SPONSORS BetterHelp - This episode is brought to you by BetterHelp. Give online therapy a try at betterhelp.com/ROTOVIZ and get on your way to being your best self. Underdog Fantasy – Get a 100% deposit match on your first deposit up to $100 when you sign up at Underdogfantasy.com using this link or the promo code ROTOVIZ. Listeners of RotoViz Radio can save 10% on a one-year RotoViz subscription by visiting RotoViz.com/podcast or by using the promotional code "rvradio2024" at the time of purchase. Gametime - Download the Gametime app, create an account, and use code ROTOVIZ for $20 off SHOW NOTES RotoViz Radio provides the power for Remember That Game: Subscribe to the RotoViz Radio on YouTube Direct message: @ThomasEmerick Email: emericktc@gmail.com Subscribe: Remember That Game on YouTube Follow: Apple and Spotify Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

#craftbeer #drake #childishgambino After a hard-fought battle of hip-hop beef, the war is seemingly over — and though Drake fired last, he's taken home the loss. Between the smash success of Kendrick Lamar's "Not Like Us" and Metro Boomin's viral instrumental "BBL Drizzy," we've got to wonder how Drake will bounce back. Besides the music itself, we also talk about the way this phenomenon has been discussed, especially with those who aren't scholars of hip-hop, those who are black culture vultures, and others. Then, we hop over to the reassessment of Childish Gambino's highly praised "This Is America." Why does the internet suddenly hate the song and was it actually overrated — or is this another case of contrarian criticism for the sake of it. Finally, we get into some gamer talk with massive layoffs at Microsoft's acquired gaming studios and speculation on the recently confirmed successor to the Nintendo Switch. What do we want and what do we think we'll get from those mad lads at Nintendo? *Beer Of The Week* Crooked Can Brewing Co. Space Cowboi Hazy Double IPA 0:00 Flying Chihuahua Beer Intro 4:46 Drake vs. Kendrick Lamar Beef In The Zeitgeist 30:05 Hip-Hop Outsiders' Takes On The Beef 48:10 The Reappraisal Of "This Is America" 1:06:14 Xbox Guts Major Studios 1:14:57 The Helldivers 2 PSN Reversal 1:20:00 Speculating On The Nintendo Switch 2 1:32:45 Cheers Of The Week 1:40:24 Beer Review

Welcome, to This Is America, April 18th, 2024. In this episode, first we present an interview with a member of Houston Food Not Bombs, who speaks about how the group has been pushing back on attempts by the city to shut down their mutual aid program through ongoing ticketing and police harassment. We then turn... Read Full Article

Welcome, to This Is America, March 21st, 2024. In this episode, first we speak with several anarchists and mutual aid organizers in so-called San Antonio, Texas about their late friend, Aaron Bushnell. On February 25th of this year, Bushnell, an anarchist originally from the Cape Cod area of Massachusetts. engaged in what he described as... Read Full Article

Welcome, to This Is America, March 8th, 2024. On today’s episode, we feature an interview first with Jeremy White, a long-time community organizer in Southern California who is currently facing felony charges stemming from a counter-protest against violent far-Right gangs in San Diego in 2017. We talk about how Jeremy and other activists were selectively... Read Full Article

The guys of “He Said, He Said, He Said” are back with a brand-new live episode to break down the latest news headlines and dish out some scoop on the most jaw dropping “Tea” that's leaving us scratching our heads and our mouths wide open! -Where in the world can an individual with 91 criminal charges that include 34 felony charges in New York, 40 felony counts in Florida, and 4 counts in Washington DC for attempting to overturn the 2020 election be allowed to run for the US Presidency? THIS IS AMERICA. -The Alabama Supreme court has decided that fertilized eggs, called embryos are already born before they are placed in a uterus, which is where babies develop. THIS IS AMERICA. -Wendy's is trying to convince us the same burger you purchased at 11am at $3 should be $4 at 11:15am. THIS IS AMERICA. -Tyler Perry's Netflix movie “Mea Culpa” has writer's cramps… New Episodes of “He Said, He Said, He Said” - stream LIVE on Fridays at 7 p.m. EST on YouTube, Facebook, and X. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/hesaidhesaidhesaidlive/message

Welcome, to This Is America, February 17th, 2024. On this episode, first we speak with independent journalist Alissa Azar about their recent trip to the border, the unfolding crisis between Republican governors and president Biden, the far-Right convoy who came out to support the GOP, and the refugees and asylum seekers caught in the middle.... Read Full Article

"Do you need a non-stop music to get you through your day, week, workout, or commute? Do you enjoy listening to House Music from Around the World? Do you appreciate a variety of musical styles, flavors, and one-of-a-kind edits/remixes? Press play and enjoy!" - DJ MIDIMACKEp 247 MIDI's FUNKY FAVs #8 (THE MIX BAG PODCAST) Playlist:Heat (African Day) by Milk & Sugar (Germany)/Nomfusi (South Africa)(Ep 001)Funky Train by Paul Parsons (London)/Luca Debonaire (The Netherlands)(Ep 240)God Made Me Feel It by MD X-Press (USA)/Simion (Germany)(Ep 243)The One That Got Away by The Shapeshifters (UK) feat. Obi Franky (Ep 239)Oh Me!? by Angelo Ferreri (Italy)(Ep 242)Come On Girl by Funkatomic/Claudio Caccini (Italy)(Ep 086)Everything Everyway by Foo Funkers (Italy)(Ep 089)Troubled Heart by AlexZ (The Netherlands)(Ep 086)Give It Up by Buried King (Australia)(Ep 081)How I Feel by Steve Taylor (UK)/Ozzy & Stix (UK)(Ep 086)Like It Like That by Da Funk Junkies (UK)(Ep 244)My Feelings Can't Explain by Mattei & Omich (Italy)/Fatimah Provillon (USA/Italy)(Ep 243)Beach by Sebb Junior (France/Spain)(Ep 241)This Groove by Oliver Heldens (The Netherlands)/Lenno (Finland)(Ep 092)Larry's Way by Mark Lower (France)(Ep 242)Giant by Calvin Harris (Scotland)/Rag'N'Bone Man (UK)(Ep 085)Dum Dum by David Penn (Spain)(Ep 238)Crazy by Ministry of Funk (Uruguay)(Ep 241)Somebody by White Ocean (Korea)(Ep 245)DROP IT! by DJ MIDIMACK (USA)(Ep 129)Boogie No More by Madrid De Los Austrias (?)/Dorfmeister (Switzerland)(Ep 240)Piano Roller by Chris Bowers (UK)(Ep 243)Piano Pump by Superlover (Germany)(Ep 239)Southside by Housego (Scotland)(Ep 240)Got Me Burnin' Up With Ya by Luca Debonaire (The Netherlands)(Ep 241)I See Your Lies by DJ MIDIMACK (USA)(Ep 221)Can U See (I'm So In Love) by DJ MIDIMACK (USA)(Ep 149)Music Pumping by Rio Dela Duna (France)/Duo 2 (?)/Jeremy Bass (Mexico) feat. Soraya Vivian (Ep 087)Es Un Secreto by BLOND:ISH (Canada/London)/Dalex (USA/Puerto Rico)/Hugel (France) feat. Pension & Juanmih (Ep 239)Tra Tra by BLOND:ISH (Canada/London)/Nfasis (Dominican Republic)/Hugel (France)(Ep 241)Back To The Old School by Groovetonic/Olivian DJ (Romania/Italy)(Ep 093)Passion by Gat Decor (?)(Ep 240)Look What You Do To Me by DJ MIDIMACK (USA)(Ep 195)Something Special (Gimme Gimme) by DJ MIDIMACK (USA)(Ep 238)My Game by Super Drug (Croatia)(Ep 089)Can You Release by Per QX (Sweden)/Danny Rhys (UK)/Suki Soul (UK)(Ep 242)Tensions Rising High by DJ MIDIMACK (USA)(Ep 163)I GET by DJ MIDIMACK (USA)(Ep 159)Another Way by Turntables Night Fever (?)(Ep 244)Rich What I Got To Be by Henry Navarro (USA)(Ep 245)Body Funk by Purple Disco Machine (Germany)(Ep 090)To The Music by Aternity (USA)(Ep 243)Music by Orson Welsh (The Netherlands)/Jules Little (Czech Republic)(Ep 004)MY HOUSE by DJ MIDIMACK (USA)(Ep 181)THE FLOW by DJ MIDIMACK (USA)(Ep 152)This Is America by Childish Gambino (USA)(Ep 085)Loco by Rick Silva (Mexico)(Ep 241)Piece Of Your Heart by Goodboys (UK)/James Hype (UK)/Meduza (Italy)(Ep 092)Fever by David Penn (Spain)/KPD (Spain)(Ep 244)Lady (Hear Me Tonight) by Mark Knight (London)/James Hurr (UK)(Ep 242)Never Knew by DJ MIDIMACK (USA)(Ep 244)Double Pleasure by Discoplex (Italy)/Corrado Alunni (Italy)(Ep 241)Make Luv by Block & Crown (The Netherlands)(Ep 080)In The Music by Eugenio Fico (Italy)(Ep 244)Don't Do It by The Cube Guys (Italy)/Pedemontanas (?)(Ep 082)Queen of the Disco by DJ PP (Uruguay)(Ep...

Brian Meth's uncle never could have predicted that a Jose Feliciano concert would lead to a Led Zeppelin opening – a story so rich in the unexpected it could only have been real life. It's tales like these that fueled our latest jam session at the "Necessary List," where we found ourselves tangled in the vibrant history of music videos. Joined by the illustrious poster artist and my dear comrade, Brian, we pored over the kaleidoscope of visuals that have become as iconic as the songs they accompany. From Madonna's boundary-pushing "Like a Prayer" to the theatrical masterpiece that is Michael Jackson's "Thriller," we celebrated the symbiotic dance between sound and sight.Our studio in Kansas City was alive with the electric charge of nostalgia as we scrutinized and debated Rolling Stone's top music video rankings. With each riff and chorus, we dissected the cultural ripples of videos like "Sledgehammer" by Peter Gabriel and reflected on those that challenged the status quo – think Childish Gambino's "This Is America." But it wasn't just a journey into the past; we cast our gaze forward to the future of visual storytelling in music, weighing in on recent creations and the shifting landscape of media consumption.As the 100th episode of "Another Unecessary List" unfurled before us, we were reminded of the gratitude we have for those who tune in. We teased a little about the future – the website's redesign and the new content we're itching to share. With Brian by my side, we wrapped up feeling amped about where music videos have been and excited for where they're headed. So whether you're in it for the memories or eager to spot the next big thing, our studio's doors are open, and the records are spinning.www.TheTouringFanLive.commedia@TheTouringFanLive.Comwww.facebook.com/TheTouringFanLiveInstagram-@TheTouringFanLiveCopyright The Touring Fan Live 2022

Welcome, to This Is America, January 13th, 2024. In this episode, as we get back into the grove of a new year, we bring you a variety of voices from across the so-called United States. From Seattle, we speak with one person about the recent destruction of the Black Lives Matter memorial garden by the... Read Full Article

Welcome, to This Is America, December 9th, 2023. On this episode, first we speak with antifascist journalist, author, and researcher Shane Burley along with Xeno, an anarchist and anti-Zionist Jew about the weaponization of anti-Semitism by groups like the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) and the far-Right, amidst the growing movement to end apartheid in occupied Palestine.... Read Full Article

Welcome, to This Is America, November 1st, 2023. On this episode, we speak with Sam about the recent Block Cop City speaking tour across the US and the upcoming mass actions in Atlanta against the Cop City project from November 10th – 13th. We also speak with hosts of the Final Straw podcast about the... Read Full Article

Welcome, to This Is America, August 15th, 2023. In this episode, we speak with two organizers of the Midwest Dual Power Gathering, taking place in Chicago next week. We then speak with Candice King, a resident of Eugene, Oregon who is currently on rent strike, along with a local anarchist who is helping organize eviction... Read Full Article

Welcome, to This Is America, July 21th, 2023. On today’s episode we present an interview with antifascist journalist and researcher Vishal Singh about the bloody brawls erupting outside of school board meetings in Southern California and how the fight against the far-Right is evolving as gender fascists double down against LGBTQ+ communities. We then feature... Read Full Article

They got app where you can look pregnant and the baby can look like you is insane Prime Nelly VS Prime Future!!!! Jermaine Dupri and Drake Link Up To Produce Docuseries on Atlanta's Magic City Strip Club Bronny James & Shareef O'Neal Denied Entrance At Saweetie's Birthday Party Yung Joc Defends Harsh Reaction To People Picking $50 Gift Card Over 30 Minutes w/ Him: ‘Ya'll Think We Not Suppose To Respond. Cancer Charity Faces Backlash for Advising Medical Professionals to Use Terms ‘Bonus Hole' or ‘Front Hole' for Vaginas to Accommodate Non-Binary or Trans Men Adam 22 Talks To Wife Lena About Having $ex With Fellow Adult Star Jason Luv She Admits She Was In Pain For 3-4 Days After Shooting Her Scene Drew Sidora Reacts To Rumors Of Cheating On Husband Ralph Pittman w/ Mimi Faust's Ex Ty Young: I don't know what I can say & not say. Fans can bet $100 on whether or not YNW Melly is guilty or innocent. YNW Melly being found guilty for murder is the heavy favorite (-180), while the rapper being found not guilty is the underdog (+140). Winnie Harlow and her boyfriend Kyle Kuzma attended an Usher show, and the model made it clear she wants no part of the recent controversy. Usher serenaded Saweetie at his residency amid the recent Keke Palmer controversy, and her reaction has gotten social media users talking. Ice Spice Seemingly Shades Latto For Stealing Her Style, Performs “Boy's a Liar Pt. 2” For The First Time. Georgia woman arrested after viral video shows her dragging her child by the hair Drake was performing during the second night of his tour when a woman decided to throw a bra on stage much to his delight. Lil Meech — Woman Claims She's Pregnant By Actor & Tells His Girlfriend Summer Walker ‘Maybe You Can Relay The Message Since He Decided To Ghost Me India Arie Slams Megan Thee Stallion & Janelle Monáe For Twerking On Stage w/ Fans During Essence Fest: ‘It Shows A Lack Of Discretion & Discernment'. DJ Mustard's Estranged Wife Chanel Thierry Blasts Producer For Sporting $200K Sneakers While Asking A Judge To Only Grant Her $23K A Month In Child Support Faith Evans Reportedly Ordered To Pay Ex-Husband Stevie Jay $1 Million In Spousal Support Drake's hologram hands him a book while he is performing on stage. Dennis Rodman gets a tattoo f his girlfriend on his face. RHOP' Alum Monique Samuels Breaks Silence After Filing For Divorce From Chris Samuels Following 11 Years Of Marriage: ‘We Have Grown So Far Apart' Wiz Khalifa sells a portion of his music catalogue including songs “Black & Yellow” and “See You Again”. Kobe Reverse Grinch dropping December 16th Drake called Childish Gambino's song “This Is America” overrated and over awarded at the first show of his tour after Gambino said it was a Drake diss Lil Uzi Vert's “Pink Tape” First-Week Sales Suggest It'll Be First No. 1 Rap Album Of 2023. Rowdy Rebel has denied claims that he was robbed, instead explaining that his jewelry was recently stolen while he was sleeping. 21 Savage Seems To Be Over The “Rich Flex” Memes. Playboi Carti has fans begging for a new album, but at least he's slightly making up for it with teases and face-to-face quality time. Dennis Rodman Called “Crazy” By Yella Yella For Face Tattoo Of Her Face. Jeff Van Gundy has indicated that he would like to return to coaching after his recent depature from ESPN last month. 50 Cent has shared his thoughts on Michael Rubin's recent White Party on social media, reacting to a photo of Lil Baby. Lil Baby & Michael Rubin Take Private Jet With Meek Mill After Viral Hug Pic

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photo: @protest_nyc Welcome, to This Is America, June 5th, 2023. On today’s episode, we start off with a discussion on recent protests in New York City, following the vigilante murder of Jordan Neely on a subway train last month. We talk about how the murder of Neely comes amidst growing calls to attack poor and... Read Full Article

How can we create spaces in our communities and ministries where people of different backgrounds feel like they belong? What's the difference between belonging and feeling “comfortable,” and how does discomfort help us grow? Cesar Castillejos has years of experience fostering meaningful belonging for kids and young adults in youth ministry. He shares countless gems of wisdom in this episode, like- When should we come in as a learner and a servant instead of a doer? How are we using our opportunity and access to equip and empower others? Are we prepared to get out of the way so that others can grow? How can we create “holy confusion” that leads to awe and wonder about Jesus? Cesar addresses all of this and more.

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Welcome, to This Is America, May 3rd, 2023. On today’s episode, first we speak with longtime antifascist organizer, Daryle Lamont Jenkins of One People’s Project about Trump’s recent indictment in New York and an analysis of continued far-Right attacks on drag and LGBTQ+ events. We then speak with two organizers involved in the West Coast... Read Full Article

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Welcome, to This Is America, April 10th, 2023. On this episode, first we speak with someone involved in the upcoming Bash Back! convergence in Chicago, Illinois. We speak about the history of the group and why it is reforming after over 10 years on hiatus and then switch to our discussion, where we tackle why... Read Full Article

On today's episode of This Is America, PMA talks about the CLOUT era and how these days many youtubers will do almost ANYTHING for a like, a click, or a view....ENJOY!!!

Brittany West leads us straight into the Word of God for inspiration around what it means to be one in Christ Jesus. Does this lead to colorblindness? How does our earthly uniqueness and Kingdom identity work together? How are churches succeeding and missing the mark when it comes to Biblical diversity? Join us for this thought-provoking talk centered out of Galatians 3.

Welcome, to This Is America, March 24th, 2023. On this episode, we speak with two members of the support crew for anarchist political prisoner, Eric King, who talk about a current fundraiser to help Eric get back on his feet as his release at the end of the year nears. We discuss how Eric has... Read Full Article

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Welcome, to This Is America, February 21st, 2023. On this episode, we speak with someone who is involved in a coalition of various anti-capitalist and autonomous groups that is organizing to support people in East Palestine, Ohio and beyond, who have been impacted by the recent Norfolk Southern disaster. We talk about what’s been happening... Read Full Article

Welcome, to This Is America, February 13th, 2023. On today’s episode, first we speak with antifascist journalist Vishal Singh, about being kicked off of Twitter, covering the far-Right in Southern California, and how Trump is rushing to double-down on anti-trans hatred. We then switch to our discussion, where we unpack recent attacks by Florida Governor,... Read Full Article

Welcome, to This Is America, January 20th, 2023. On today’s episode, first we speak with autonomous organizers in the rural Pacific Northwest town of Aberdeen, WA. We then talk to a supporter of antifascist political prisoner Alex Stokes, who has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for standing up to protect his friends from... Read Full Article

Welcome, to This Is America, December 20th, 2022. On this episode, first we speak with someone from the Atlanta Community Press Collective, about the recent arrests of forest defenders in Atlanta, Georgia, the trumped up charges they face, and how the community is responding. We then speak with Dell Cameron, a journalist who published a... Read Full Article

Welcome, to This Is America, November 25th, 2022. On today’s episode, first we speak with two members of the Black Rose Anarchist Federation about the ongoing mass United Auto Workers (UAW) strike across the University of California system. We talk about how the strike grew out of a wave of wildcat strikes in early 2020... Read Full Article

"The culture of imprisonment tells a deeper story about America. We're not going to get it if we don't go to the prisons and get those voices out." The post ‘This Is America. That's the Kind of Trial Mumia Abu-Jamal Had.' appeared first on FAIR.

On Monday's Mark Levin Show, Mr. Call Screener and ‘This Is America' podcast host, Rich Valdes fills in for Mark Levin. Democrats are driven by power and hate, and if you dare question their agenda you are the enemy. If you don't like the idea of your kids being bombarded with race, gender, sex, and other indoctrinations, you are the enemy. People need to know what's right and wrong, instead of coddling and allowing for the same mistakes to be made. They are motivated by hate, and whatever it is they hate they want to destroy and rebuild in their image. If you want to save America by destroying it and our capitalist system, you want to destroy America as we know it. It's time for all of us to be tough and tackle this evil agenda and stop it now before we lose the future. Also, children in leftward lurching cities are subjected to teachers with wild ideas like being a gender-fluid pagan witch. Ideological subversion is how to divide us and get us to turn on each other and on America. The push to sexualize children is not acceptable, and we have the right to protect our kids. Forcing sex-ed on 5-year-olds without parental consent is abuse. Later, why do we ignore gangs and organized crime like MS-13 and biker gangs?  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices