Podcast appearances and mentions of Zach D Roberts

Sociologist Karl Folk joins me to discuss the GOP's 2024 election strategy of “it doesn't matter who votes. It matters who counts the votes.”, and what we can do about it.Find this episode on your favorite podcast player here: https://pod.link/1647010767/Here are some of the sources and references from this episode:The R.N.C. Asked a Conspiracy Theorist to Train Poll Watchers. Here's What He Told Them.https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/26/us/politics/republican-national-committee-2024-posobiec.htmlThe Horrifying Fascist Manifesto Endorsed By J.D. Vancehttps://www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-horrifying-fascist-manifesto-endorsed-by-j.d.-vanceFAR-RIGHT OANN ANCHOR JACK POSOBIEC'S RISE TIED TO WHITE SUPREMACIST MOVEMENThttps://www.splcenter.org/splc-investigation-far-right-oann-anchor-jack-posobiecs-rise-tied-white-supremacist-movementPartisan Split on Election Integrity Gets Even Widerhttps://news.gallup.com/poll/651185/partisan-split-election-integrity-gets-even-wider.aspxDave Roberts's Twitter Threadhttps://x.com/drvolts/status/1839386902514049461?t=CPVSm7b4pV1DpGBpUHEsBw&s=19Vigilantes, Inc. Zach D. Roberts and Greg Palast's documentary about voter suppressionhttps://www.gregpalast.com/vigilantes-inc-free-download/In donations, Harris vs. Trump is no contesthttps://rochesterbeacon.com/2024/09/26/in-donations-harris-vs-trump-is-no-contest/Kamala Harris Hires Massive Legal Team To Fight Back Against Election Denialshttps://meidasnews.com/news/kamala-harris-hires-massive-legal-team-to-fight-back-against-election-denialsComments? Suggestions? Email: griff@didnothingwrongpod.com This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.didnothingwrongpod.com/subscribe

I sit down with Photo/Videojournalist Zach D. Roberts for an extensive discussion about voter suppression, Occupy Wall Street's legacy, documenting the information war, and much more.Find this episode on your favorite podcast player here: https://pod.link/1647010767/Here are some of the sources and references from this episode:Visu NewsZach D. Roberts - Zenfoliohttps://www.zdroberts.com"Badlands", the source of the lyrics in Zach's tattooVigilantes Inc.: Trump Plan for 2024 Taken from KKK Plan of 1946https://www.gregpalast.com/trump-plan-for-2024-taken-from-kkk-plan-of-1946/Trump's Deportation ArmyThe Largest Mass Deportation in American Historyhttps://www.history.com/news/operation-wetback-eisenhower-1954-deportation"Ramon Casiano", a song by Drive-By Truckers about Harlon Carter, the man who ran "Operation Wetback", and later went on to lead the National Rifle Association in a very right wing radical direction https://www.npr.org/2018/07/03/625752977/watch-drive-by-truckers-perform-ramon-casiano-at-the-pickathon-music-festivalThe right hand of Occupy Wall Street: from libertarians to nazis, the fact and fiction of right-wing involvement https://libcom.org/article/right-hand-occupy-wall-street-libertarians-nazis-fact-and-fiction-right-wing-involvement20 on the Right in Occupyhttps://usa.anarchistlibraries.net/library/spencer-sunshine-20-on-the-right-in-occupySpencer Sunshine on the Did Nothing Wrong Pod“Are You Prepared to Kill Somebody?” A Day With One of America's Most Popular Police Trainershttps://www.motherjones.com/politics/2017/02/dave-grossman-training-police-militarization/"Behind the Bastards" episode on Dave Grossman " The Man Who Teaches Our Cops To Kill"https://x.com/bastardspod/status/1267498066090680320Gracie Survival TacticsGracie Survival Tactics (GST) is a revolutionary defensive tactics system based on Gracie Jiu-Jitsu that incorporates time-tested techniques into an easy-to-learn system designed to help officers verbally and physically de-escalate while humanely prevailing resistant and/or aggressive subjects. In other words, it's the exact opposite of what Dave Grossman is selling.https://www.gracieuniversity.com/Pages/Public/Informationpages/graciesurvivaltactics2Comments? Suggestions? Email: didnothingwrongpod@protonmail.com This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit www.didnothingwrongpod.com/subscribe

The relationship between the 'March for Life' event and white supremacists has grown stronger over the years. Tina-Desiree Berg is joined by Zach D. Roberts to discuss these events, and the importance of knowing these extremist organizations. Tina-Desiree Berg: @TinaDesireeBerg on Twitter | District 34 on Youtube Zach D. Roberts: Photojournalist linktr.ee/zdroberts | Producer 'Vigilante' film https://www.gregpalast.com/vigilantefilm/ | @zdroberts on Twitter SUPPORT Status Coup's ON-THE-GROUND and investigative reporting on the stories the corporate media COVERS UP: https://www.StatusCoup.com/Join --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/statuscoup/support

The Right Wing Insanity Report w/ Tina-Desiree Berg! This week she is joined by Zach D. Roberts, a Photo-Journalist and Co-Producer of the new Documentary with Greg Palast 'Vigilante: Georgie's Voter Suppression Hitman'. They discuss the Charlottesville Rallies and violence, what lead to that, and how it has affected the extremist movement to this day. Zach D. Roberts: Photo-Journalist | Co-Producer 'Vigilante: Georgie's Voter Suppression Hitman' - https://www.gregpalast.com/vigilantefilm/ | @zdroberts on Twitter Tina-Desiree Berg: @TinaDesireeBerg on Twitter | District 34 on Youtube --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/statuscoup/support

Get Andy's book here: https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/andy-campbell/we-are-proud-boys/9780306827464/   Welcome to the Visu.news podcast, I'm Zach D Roberts and this week I'm chatting with Huffington Post reporter and author of a new book on the proud boys - Andy Campbell.  Much of the American public first learned of rightwing hate gang the Proud Boys after the infamous presidential debate between Donald Trump and Joe Biden in which Trump ordered them to “stand back and stand by.” But they were terrorizing communities for years before that. Andy Campbell is one of the few reporters who have been covering the Proud Boys from day one. In his superb new book, We Are Proud Boys: How a Right-Wing Street Gang Ushered in a New Era of American Extremism, Campbell lays out everything you need to know about the gang that helped organize a coup attempt in Washington, D.C. on January 6.   Campbell started out at Huffington Post as a crime reporter. He moved to politics in 2016 and, as with many journalists covering Trump, his job shifted into covering far-right extremism. “The Proud Boys stuck out right from the beginning as something more concerning than the other guys,” Campbell told me when I interviewed him for the article below. He was right, of course, and unlike a lot of the media in those days, he covered them with the skepticism that they deserved.  Generous media profiles of the Proud Boys' cool hipster co-founder Gavin McInnes, who also  co-founded Vice magazine, made the rounds on the Internet. Many journalists allowed him to promote the gang on their airwaves and websites as a “drinking club with a patriotism problem.” Unfortunately for the nation, these profiles ignored his regular calls for violence along the way, something that We Are Proud Boys documents extensively.  The story of the Proud Boys wouldn't be complete without discussing Trump's boogeyman: antifa. Campbell's book, in chronicling the far right, also features interviews with some of the people who investigated and infiltrated the organization at a time when law enforcement was defending them at Black Lives Matter protests.  We Are Proud Boys does the tough job of delving into the origins and myths that bolstered the gang, including the odd and cruel story behind the source of its name (it's from the Aladdin musical, but you'll need to read the book for the messed up part). Even if you're already familiar with the Proud Boys, this book is a riveting read that reminds you of all the times that we could have stopped them.  Read the interview at https://progressive.org/  

This is Zach D Roberts, I'm an investigative photojournalist and cofounder of Visu.News. This is the Visu.News Podcast - Isolated Incidents edition. Each month I interview an expert in the world of extremism on a topic in the news - this month I'm speaking with Alisa Mahjoub. They are an independent researcher of the relationship between the Unification Church cult group and United States imperialism/fascism. This month the former prime minister of Japan, Shinzo Abe was assassinated - this was because of Abe's connections with the Unification Church. I'll post more info in the show notes on this but I figured this was a good reason to have Alisa on to discuss their leaving the church and what this somewhat mysterious organization is like. My real introduction to the Unification Church was covering the ‘gun cult' in Northern Pennsylvania led by Pastor Sean Moon - the son of the founder of the Unification Church, Reverend Sun Myung Moon for The Progressive Magazine. There is a much larger Unification church that is thriving around the world - especially in South Korea, Japan, and the US. Sean Moon's Rod of Iron Ministries is just a small part of it.   About Alisa: Alisa Mahjoub (they/them), is an independent researcher of the relationship between the Unification Church cult group and United States imperialism/fascism. Having grown up in the UC, Alisa is now part of a yet unnamed collective of ex UC members who are actively working to expose the church's various state sanctioned human rights abuses, provide relevant information to the public, and offer support and resources on deradicalization to those who have exited or are interested in exiting the cult. You can find Alisa on twitter at Follow Alisa on Twitter at @alisa_mahjoub  Support their work at patreon.com/AlisaMahjoub   Links: Articles on shooting motivation: https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2022/07/15/national/crime-legal/yamagami-abe-shooting-motivation/  https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/23/world/asia/japan-unification-church-lawsuits.html  My photo-essay on the Rod of Iron Festival https://progressive.org/latest/love-guns-god-and-donald-trump-roberts-211018/   

In his film 2000 Mules, Dinesh D'Souza sets out to prove a giant criminal conspiracy to stuff ballot boxes with fraudulent votes. The proof? Well, you can see it with your own eyes: There's a BLACK man and he is dropping off BALLOTS in a ballot drop box. Case closed! You can laugh now. But crying time is coming. I predict that 2000 Mules will create the platform for Trump's loss of the election in 2024 — and Trump's inauguration in 2025. D'Souza's charge is mind-blowing... In Fulton County (Atlanta), he tells us 92,670 ballots were stuffed illegally into drop boxes. That's astonishing — because there were only 79,000 ballots cast in drop boxes in Fulton County! And in Detroit, it was worse. “Mules” stuffed 226,590 ballots into Detroit area drop boxes — way more than the total number of all mail-in ballots — about three times the number of ballots in drop boxes. In this interview, Palast chats with Zach D. Roberts, and breaks down the flawed math and misleading claims featured in 2000 Mules. Learn more: https://www.gregpalast.com/2000-mules-belly-laughs-belly-aches-from-dsouzas-proof-that-trump-won/

More than 50 activists convened on a power plant in West Virginia last weekend, calling for its closure. By the end of the day, 16 people were arrested. The plant the protesters targeted in Grant Town is one where Sen. Joe Manchin makes nearly $500,000 per year selling a dirty coal waste called “gob.” Gob is short for “garbage of bituminous,” which Sen. Manchin sells to the power plant for a tidy profit via Enersystems, the company he founded and that his son now runs. The protesters, a mix of local and national activists, call themselves West Virginia Rising. One of them was Michael Whitten, a retired miner from Boone County, West Virginia. “When I worked on strip mines, we threw that [gob] away,” Whitten told DeSmogBlog. “We covered it up, it's like if you had a wood-burning stove at your home and you wanted to put wet wood in it — it's just not economical.” He's right. The West Virginia customers served by the Grant Town Power Plant, run by American Bituminous Power Partners (AMBit), are being charged more because of the gob. In the last six years burning this waste coal has cost the local power utility an additional $117 million. All of this — even though regulators initially fought the plant's transition to burning gob — was pushed through thanks to Sen. Manchin. Manchin, who has a blind trust set up for his investments, has continually been a one-man blockade for climate legislation. That came to a head this year when he essentially killed the Build Back Better bill, Biden's signature climate and social policy legislation, by dropping his (some might argue never serious) support of it. Full report by Zach D. Roberts: https://www.gregpalast.com/west-virginia-protest-calls-out-manchins-coal-profits/ #JoeManchin #GrantTown #WestVirginia #WVRising #CoalBaronBlockade #StopGOB #WestVirginiaRising #Pollution #Environment

Hi, this is Zach D Roberts with a special episode of the Visu.News podcast AND the Around the Lens podcast. For those who are new to the pod - Around the Lens is a visual imaging show that I used to do regularly with David J Murphy. Well, we're bringing it back and trying out a bunch of new ideas - expanding out beyond just visual journalism with more reviews and interviews from people outside my usual field.    One feature that we're working on is bringing you interviews like the one here with Times Reporter photojournalist Andrew Dolph that focuses on getting the "director's commentary" of a photo story. Basically the 'behind the scenes' tale of how and why they got the shots.    Dover's Mayor Homrighausen went on a firing spree today. He is embattled, and under investigation. We received a tip, followed it, and documented the firings of three staff members as he moved from building to building. This is why #journalismmatters https://t.co/2y00kpV9AX pic.twitter.com/BPPzwUcoKx — Andrew Dolph | Photojournalist (@andrewdolph) December 22, 2021     I'm friends with Andrew so I saw these images posted on his Twitter (@andrewdolph) a couple of days ago and I knew I had to talk with him about them. Andrew's paper, the Times Reporter is a daily paper based out of New Philadelphia, Ohio which is on the map between Columbus, Cleveland, and Pittsburgh.    So without further ado - here's my conversation with Andrew Dolph.    Andrew Dolph Instagram https://www.instagram.com/dolphphoto/  

This is the first ever episode of the Isolated Incidents podcast. A monthly dive into the stories that journalists have put out covering the world of far-right and the grifters that inhabit it. When I first came up with the idea it was before the pandemic so I didn't think to necessarily cover the anti-vax devotees but as the worlds of right-wing grifters, politicians and radio hosts expands we'll cover those too.    First a little bit about me. I'm Zach D Roberts an investigative journalist and photographer who has been covering the far right for over a decade. I followed Trump and his MAGA caravan on the 2016 campaign trail which then slid into the far-right rallies like the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, my photos helped get some of the violent white supremacists thrown in jail, and since then I've been going to MAGA rallies, fascist marches, and white supremacist clusterfucks. Now as the movements have evolved and after January 6th they've somewhat gone into hiding its anti-mandate' anti-vaxx and mask rallies that I cover - which are really just the new MAGA rally… with a lot of new faces.    As this is the first episode of Isolated Incidents we're focusing on the OG conspiracy broadcaster - Alex Jones. Well, actually that would probably be either Art Bell or Bill Cooper or even some John Birch Society connected loon … I'm sure we'll talk about them in the future.  Last month I spoke to journalist Brooke Binkowski who has been tracking Jones for a while now, delving into his coverage of the Sandy Hook mass killing in 2012 for the Texas defamation lawsuit brought by family of the murdered children. His refusal to provide the requested information to the multiple lawsuits against him by the parents of the murdered Sandy Hook children saw default judgments in Texas and Connecticut. He's currently attempting to raise $2 million to save his disinformation empire, he's even talking about selling his tank.  Right-wing broadcaster Alex Jones is once again, in legal trouble.  Last week, the January 6th Commission has subpoenaed him. A letter from the Commission, signed by Congressman Bennie Thompson has called on Jones to provide documents pertaining to his part in the organization of the rally and the subsequent march that he participated in to the Capitol. The Commission cites his “facilitating a donation to provide what he described as “eighty percent” of the funding.” Jones used his megaphone and live broadcast to call on people during the allegedly impromptu Jan 6th march to head in the direction of InfoWars guest, Ali Alexander's permitted rally location on the East side of the Capitol. The Commission does not seem to be claiming that he was part of a planned attack on the Capitol but was part of the larger move on the day to march to the building. On January 6th, the broadcaster repeatedly told his listeners that Trump personally ordered him to lead such a march.  The subpoena sites multiple instances on his broadcasts in the leadup to January 6th that the rally was going to be something bigger than a goodbye to the one-term President. The rallying cry of 1776 Former President Trump tweeted out “Big Protest on January 6th, Be there will be wild!” - in response, the loudest cheerleader for MAGA responded: But finally Trump has done the right thing. .. . He is now calling on We the People to take action and to show our numbers. . . . This is the most important call to action on domestic soil since Paul Revere and his ride in 1776. The time for games is over. The time for action is now. Where were you when history called? Where were you when you and your children's destiny and future was [sic] on the line? I've been on the air 27 years, and I've never reported on anything that comes as close to being this huge. This is seismic.  • • •  And if you allow this multinational consortium to steal our election, you have committed not just us, but yourselves, to a living hell. . . . Trump is trying to do a lot of good things. And he is our President and he was reelected.  Roger Stone, the originator of the phrase “Stop the Steal” and mentor to already subpoenaed Ali Alexander has also himself been today subpoenaed. With the previous subpoena of Ali Alexander and Nathan Martin much of the Stop the Steal leadership has now been called.  Stone and Jones have a record of not complying with subpoenas and Alexander has claimed on his private Telegram channel that he will not participate with the Commission. Brooke Binkowski is the editor of TruthofFiction.com a fact checking news site and is the former managing editor of Snopes.com.  You can find all the legal documents here: https://infowarslawsuit.com/ I recommend listening to the Knowledge Fight podcast if you want to learn more about the world of Alex Jones but also laugh about it. http://knowledgefight.libsyn.com/

[Oct 25, 2021: Charlottesville, VA] Jury selection began today for the civil trial of the organizers of the 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville. The rally ended with the murder of Heather Heyer and injuries to dozens of other activists. The case was brought by a group of individuals that were attacked during the tiki torch march across the University of Virginia's Charlottesville campus on August 11, 2017 and the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville the next day. If successful, the lawsuit, which seeks large monetary damages, could have wide-reaching repercussions. The plaintiffs hope that it will ultimately bankrupt the hate groups behind the far-right events and bring their activities to a halt. Zach D. Roberts, who filmed the 2017 Charlottesville violence for the Palast Investigative Fund, joins Greg Palast and FlashPoints host Dennis J. Bernstein to talk about the case. Read Roberts' exclusive report: https://www.gregpalast.com/hate-goes-on-trial-in-charlottesville/

Zach D Roberts and Aaron Cynic are back with a conversation about Occupy Wall Street, which turns 10 years old on Friday, September 17th. No OWS hasn't been occupying Zuccotti Square for 10 years but the legacy OWS lives on in many forms. There's no Bernie presidential run without OWS, there's no conversation about the 99% without OWS - we could go on - but that's why we recorded this podcast! Zach was in NYC for the occupation at Zuccotti aka Liberty and Aaron was in Chicago's financial district and Grant Park.   READ THIS: This is a great piece in The Indypendent on how 9/11 set back the anti-globalization/pro-worker movement.  https://indypendent.org/2021/09/9-11-and-never-forgetting/ Lessons from OWS in The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/sep/15/occupy-wall-street-10-year-anniversary-lessons Occupy Wall Street Did More Than You Think in The Atlantic by the co-founder of the Occupy Wall Street Journal https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/09/how-occupy-wall-street-reshaped-america/620064/ I was beaten several times and arrested at OWS #D17 along with hundreds of other journalists and activists. This is an excellent report detailing some of them. (The Global Justice Clinic (NYU School of Law) and the Walter Leitner International Human Rights Clinic at the Leitner Center for International Law and Justice (Fordham Law School) https://chrgj.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/suppressingprotest.pdf    

Photojournalists on the Unite the Right Rally 3 Years on and more...   This is a special crossover episode of the Visu.News and Around the Lens podcasts. We're recording this on the third anniversary of the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville that ended in the death of Heather Heyer and severe injuries to dozens more.  I'm here with a handful of photojournalists who were there that day discussing what has and hasn't changed since then. Our conversation starts with the tiki torch march then on to the next day - the Unite the Right rally, August 12th. We then drift into chatting about how covering the far right has changed and discussed some of the new risks of working as a photojournalist covering protests.  I apologize that I did not have each person do a proper intro of themselves, so I will list who is on the call in the order in which they spoke. You can find their socials and websites in the show notes. Sandi Bachom is a freelance video journalist based in New York City with Getty and NowThisNews (Sandibachom.com). You can find her on Twitter and Instagram.  John Rudoff is a freelance photojournalist with SIPA-USA and based in Portland (Rudoffphoto.com) You can find him Twitter and Instagram.  Ford Fischer is an independent video journalist and co-founder of News2Share.com based in Washington DC. You can find him on Twitter and YouTube. Emily Molli is a video and still journalist and founder of SCNR.com follow her work on Twitter and Instagram  Michael Nigro is a freelance photojournalist and film director based in New York City. You can find him on Twitter and Instagram and his portfolio site here.  And I'm Zach D Roberts a freelance photojournalist co-founder of Visu.News and AroundTheLens.com.  You can find me on Twitter and Instagram.   

Hello, this is Zach D Roberts here with the Visu.News podcast. This week I'm chatting with Sean Kitchen of PASpotlight.org (Pennsylvania Spotlight.) Sean is a writer based in Pennsylvania's capital, Harrisburg - he has previously contributed to Raging ChickenPress (a favorite publication of mine) and is the go-to person to learn about all the Big Lie shenanigans going on in the Keystone State.  In this episode, we focus on one politician - Republican State Senator Doug Mastriano. Since we recorded this episode it has been confirmed that Senator Mastriano was at least at the steps of the US Capitol on January 6th.  To quote from the PASpotlight article: Screenshots of Senator Mastriano and his wife breaching a police barricade and walking on the North West Lawn of the Capitol grounds emerged over the weekend. PA Spotlight has previously uncovered that Senator Mastriano witnessed the first breaches of the Capitol in a little-known right-wing interview just days after January 6th. This sparked further interest by the #SeditionHunters to pinpoint his exact location. Parler footage from Propublica's database that is time-stamped at 1:59 PM shows Senator Mastriano and his wife walking towards the main set of stairs that insurrectionists breached at 2:06 PM. While I've been back in Georgia again covering the continued voter suppression happening there with SB202 - Pennsylvania is quickly becoming the state to watch for the quote unquote voter integrity happenings. Let's get into it.

This week on the Visu.News podcast Aaron Cynic and I speak with journalist Kit O'Connell about the media's use of language around police violence and shootings. The favored phrases of 'unbiased' news outlets around these incidents are often in a passive tone - not wanting to lay blame on anyone in law enforcement - the same doesn't go for the victims of police violence of course - as they are often described as suspects.   Kit wrote an excellent and concise piece on the media's use of the term "Officer-Involved shooting" that asks the question - how was the officer involved?    Check out his article here: Officer-Involved Shootings: How Was The Officer Involved?   Other recommended reading:    -FAIR: Copspeak: 7 Ways Journalists Use Police Jargon to Obscure the Truth -Chicago Reader: How Chicago's 'Fraternal Order of Propaganda' shapes the story of fatal police shootings  Let's get into it.    This is Zach D Roberts and I thank you for listening - You can support this podcast at Patreon.com/ZDRoberts and Patreon.com/AaronCynic - we're now on Podbean and (should be) available on all the other places you can find podcasts.     

Aaron Cynic and Zach D Roberts are back for a new year of the Visu.News podcast. We talk about the past couple of weeks news and so much more. 

If you appreciate Parallax Views and the work of J.G. Michael please consider supporting the show through Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/parallaxviews On this edition of Parallax Views, photojournalist Zach D. Roberts of the Palast Investigative Fund joins us to discuss the investigative journalism he and Greg Palast undertook in the aftermath of the January 6th Capitol riots. What Roberts and Palast found was the high-profile members of the GOP, including from the National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) and Georgia Republican Party, had coordinated with Ali Alexander, an alt-right activist associated with Roger Stone and other far-right figures that played a role in organizing the "Stop the Steal" movement that stormed the Capitol on January 6th, 2021. We discuss this in detail as well as going over Zach and Greg's work on voter suppression, voter purges in the Georgia election, and much, much more.

This week, for Aroundthelens.com and Visu.News, Zach D. Roberts spoke to photojournalist John Rudoff. John is a photojournalist who has been working in the industry for several decades covering activism, music and theater and many foreign stories such as refugees in Greece. You can find Read More ...

It's the Year of the Bastard, and everybody knows it. Welcome to Year of the Bastard, one of a pair of new ECV features that will also serve as their own stand-alone spinoff podcasts so that people who want to get really granular about specific things can either listen here with all their other ECV content, or they can get it on their own by subscribing to a second feed.  Year of the Bastard will be Russ Burlingame and a rotating cast of guests (including but not limited to Zach D. Roberts and Logan Bretschneider of Emerald City Video) doing an in-depth re-read and analysis of Transmetropolitan, the great Vertigo/Helix series from Warren Ellis and Darick Robertson. One or two issues a week, we will be breaking down Transmet and looking at its fascinating and often horrifying parallels to the world today. You can find us (and a number of other awesome podcasts) on the ACPN family of shows. The Emerald City Video Podcast is a periodic podcast hosted by entertainment journalist Russ Burlingame, with a rotating cast of hosts who used to work at the Emerald City Video store in East Syracuse, New York. The store was once awarded by the Video Software Dealers of America as the best small video store in the U.S. Though it closed in 2009, the store’s legacy still touches the daily lives of a lot of the people who used to work there, and the Syracuse community as a whole still has a lot of fondness for its memory. The idea behind the podcast, which launched in 2016, was to bring the discourse you would get at a video store — talking with real humans about your movies, rather than trusting in an algorithm — back to…well, if not the world, or even Syracuse, at least to the guys who maybe missed that human connection the most: a bunch of pop culture junky loudmouths who used to run a really cool video store. Over the years, the Emerald City Video banner has flown over a number of themes, including specific episodes about TV series like Riverdale and Psych. If you like what we’re doing here, you can become a patron of the Emerald City Video Podcast, which comes with fun perks. You can also follow us on Twitter and Facebook. We also have Instagram and Vero accounts where we share images, photos, memes, and nonsense. You can support us on Patreon, too, and do things like requesting custom episodes and the like. Be back for more by noon on the fifth day, and please — always remember to rewind your videocassettes.

Emerald City Video hosts Russ Burlingame (ComicBook.com) and Zach D. Roberts (Around the Lens) talk Comic Con International: San Diego 2019, where Russ checked out various Warner Bros. TV projects including the end of ARROW, the CRISIS ON INFINITE EARTHS, RIVERDALE, and the final season of SUPERNATURAL. We also talk about the "Kevin Smith Reboots Hall H" panel and a little bit about Marvel's aggressive new slate of movies and TV shows. Jay & Silent Bob Reboot Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHvaWulHk5E You can find us (and a number of other awesome podcasts) on the ACPN family of shows. If you like what we're doing here, you can become a patron of the Emerald City Video Podcast, which comes with fun perks. You can also follow us on Twitter and Facebook. We also have Instagram and Vero accounts where we share images, photos, memes, and nonsense. Be back for more by noon on the fifth day, and please -- always remember to rewind your videocassettes.  

In the latest episode of the Emerald City Video Podcast, Russ Burlingame and Zach D. Roberts take a look back at the 1997 black comedy Grosse Pointe Blank. Not only is this an employee recommendation — one of both Russ’s and Zach’s favorite movies — but it is thematically appropriate, since this weekend, the Jamesville-DeWitt Class of 1998 had their 20-year reunion… …which Russ was not able to make, since he has been traveling for work and basically oozing money out of every pore for weeks. But he can get his ‘90s nostalgia on, by watching John Cusack get his ‘80s nostalgia on, while talking about Grosse Pointe Blank. You can find us (and a number of other awesome podcasts) on the ACPN family of shows. If you like what we're doing here, you can become a patron of the Emerald City Video Podcast, which comes with fun perks. You can also follow us on Twitter and Facebook. We also have Instagram and Vero accounts where we share images, photos, memes, and nonsense. Be back for more by noon on the fifth day, and please -- always remember to rewind your videocassettes.

Some of the people responsible for the beating of DeAndre Harris last summer in Charlottesville are finally being brought to justice. Nicole welcomes photojournalist Zach D. Roberts, who captured the beating on film, back to the show to bring us up to date on what's going on. He also fills us in on his annual trek to the NRA convention. Plus, as the new documentary RBG is opening around the country, Nicole speaks with its Producers/Directors Betsy West and Julie Cohen.

Independent investigative journalism, broadcasting, trouble-making and muckraking with Brad Friedman of BradBlog.com

Independent investigative journalism, broadcasting, trouble-making and muckraking with Brad Friedman of BradBlog.com

Photojournalist Zach D. Roberts caught the beating of De'Andre Harris on film, and joins in to talk about what he witnessed in Charlottesville on Saturday. And it's Thursday, so Howie Klein is here to tell us about the latest Blue America endorsed candidates and more politics in this very strange time in American history.