podcasts

I like podcasts more on the vegetable side of the spectrum than the candy side. This is what I've exhausted so far: The Dollop, Citations Needed, 5 - 4, Revolutions, Blowback, The History of Rome, The Audit, Hardcore History

Should I go back to Robert Fedvans and the Belling Cat Bad Guys Show with 3 ad breaks an hour?

I don't want to listen to audiobooks outside of my commute because I'm way too distracted. All day I'm remembering 3-5 digit numbers while scanning through other numbers to find the matching ones. I need something interesting that I can zone in and out of

Paris Marx is joined by Ed Zitron to discuss the public’s growing disillusionment with the tech industry as it pivoted to chasing profits instead of providing us with anything useful.

The first episode of the rebooted ProlesPod just dropped today and it was mostly focused on explaining a perspective of how things broke down for the podcastand what the game plan is this time around. Personally very excited to see ProlesPod reboot. I only discovered the podcast after it discontinued and reading about the esoteric drama that halted it was unfortunate.

I'll just say that getting a taste of the ProlesPod vibe really made its absence today in the left media scene loom rather large. While RevLeft is a great work, it’s also a distinctly big-tent left unity podcast and it was unfortunate that every time MLs got invited to talk about figures like Stalin, Breht had to spend a quarter of the episode time soothing the audience so that some Ultra or Trot listener didn’t get upset. Similarly, Deprogram is limited by its baby leftist approach and the wacko freaks that sometimes get invited like that Russian “Marxist” doomer lib. Having a relatively unapologetical AES-upholding ML podcast has been sorely needed and I think the only active one in existence that existed besides ProlesPod was Brian Becker’s Socialist Program.

Having Tony from the fantastic "Actually Existing Socialism” podcast onboard this reboot is a great sign IMO that the podcast won’t be mired in spending half the time doing that “hear me out” routine like other left pods always do, needing to highlight the “controversy” of socialist figures or endlessly retreading tiring baby leftist old grounds like “Stalin maybe good?” or “China maybe socialist still?” to prevent the lost lib that wanders in from freaking out.

The conditions they set out for the reboot seem promising and it’s exciting to see that MLs finally have a group talk podcast for MLs once again.

[CW: Suicide] US Soldier Reveals Why Aaron Bushnell Self-Immolated, with Mike Prysner

Extreme liberalism, but important information

Amerikkka not droping those k any time soon, what an evil place.

Website for this case

What do you think of recent podcasts?

Great? Good? So-so? Bad? Awful? Other?

I haven't listened to CTH in ~2 years. If all they do is shoot the shit - I have no interest. But they have Osita Nwanevu as a guest on today's show so I'm curious to have a listen if I get positive feedback in this thread.

Chapo Trap House

812 - Sweeney Odd feat. Osita Nwanevu (3/5/24)

Contributing editor for the New Republic and columnist for The Guardian Osita Nwanevu returns to the show. We look at a new New Yorker piece on Joe Biden’s last campaign, and the president’s defiant refusal to change gears, adjust policies, or really do anything to address rather dismal polling ahead of the election.

Then, switching to the republicans, we look at the increasingly weird and anti-social tact of American conservatism and ask: can the modern right be assimilated into American culture? Find Osita’s newsletter here: https://www.ositanwanevu.com/ And check out the Flaming Hydra collective (featuring a lot of great writers & friends of the show) here: https://flaminghydra.com/

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I didn't realize Matt was still gone. I just assumed he came back already. Is there any hint at all when he'll come back?

crunk ain't dead starts to play

I got turned on to CZM with Behind the Bastards and It Could Happen Here Season 1 (aka "Robert Evans doomposts about the impending 2nd American Civil War"). I would have placed them as quite anarchist which, while not my preferred leftist tendency, I still respect as an important faction in the fight for global liberation and international communism.

I had assumed they were leftist and they do seem to be most of the time, but there are some weird and jarring... exceptions.

1. The ICHH host Mia Wong seems to have this unbridled hatred for China. I'm no expert on China and I would not want to live with Chinese working conditions, but they seem to go beyond reasonable critiques into full on animosity.

2. They've been pro-Ukraine without acknowledging that the Ukraine War is a NATO-provoked proxy war, and that continuing to fight over territory that doesn't even want to be Ukrainian has just gotten so many Ukrainians killed for nothing, in a doomed fight. That's fucked up.

3. The sub for Behind the Bastards (yes I know I should leave but there's still niche stuff I like there) appears to be full of Blue MAGA Vote Blue No Matter Who Is Being Genocided shitlib fascists. I only joined it recently and it was jarring to get dogpiled and downvoted for saying such basic things as "fuck Genocide Joe", etc. These fans seem to have Trump Derangement Syndrome. Now, I know CZM has no official relationship with the subreddit, but I can't help feeling it's a mark against them that they attract this crowd! OTOH, CZM platforms a host who's explicitly pro-Palestine and anti-Zionist so maybe judging them by their fanbase isn't fair, and the problem is just that shitlibs have exactly 0 critical thinking skills

Designed in the 1930s, Offenhauser racing engines dominated at Indianapolis until the 1970s, winning 27 times. We chart its evolution from a 2.5L boat engine to a 1,000 horsepower turbocharged screamer.

Main topic at 45:55

Email us with tips, stories, and unhinged rants: carsandcomrades@gmail.com //

Our social media links etc: www.linktr.ee/CarsAndComrades //

Music by King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard: www.kinggizzardandthelizardwizard.com/polygondwanaland //

Links/Sources:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Miller_(auto_racing) //

https://silodrome.com/miller-91-race-car/ //

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Offenhauser //

https://www.motortrend.com/how-to/assembling-270ci-offenhauser-indycar-engine-step/ //

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Offenhauser_Sales_Corporation //

https://www.museumofamericanspeed.org/drakev8.html //

SHOW NOTES

I thought I had a hot take in response to the Little Mermaid discourse last year, but predictably I’m not the first one to think of reading the Isle of Venus in Camões’ Lusiads against the Age of Exploration diary entries in which roving European savages discuss their adventures in more complex Indigenous kinship structures where sex was not commodified and the family was not specialized to pass down private property—as well as (what one suspects was actually much more common) rolling up on Indigenous women around the world and committing sexual violence. Sure enough, my guest Min has written an entire scholarly thesis on two different poetic re-imaginings of the Isle of Venus which highlight the colonial violence that Camões’ poem works to conceal: one by a white Anglo woman in Brazil, and another by the leader of the Angolan revolution against Portuguese domination, António Agostinho Neto.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Os_Lus%C3%ADadas#Canto_IX

Canto IX

The Muslims plot to detain the Portuguese until the annual trading fleet from Mecca can arrive to attack them, but Monçaide tells da Gama of the conspiracy, and the ships escape from Calicut. To reward the explorers for their efforts, Venus prepares an island for them to rest on and asks her son Cupid to inspire Nereids with desire for them. When the sailors arrive on the Isle of Love, the ocean nymphs make a pretense of running but surrender quickly.

Maybe someone you know needs to know this.

It's much easier than the Pentagon wants you to think. Whether you're in the military or know someone who is, this is the definitive guide to walking away. And as Biden's support for genocide spins out into new US wars across the Middle East, from the Red Sea to Iraq, now would be a good time to walk away.

Featuring special guest Maria Santelli, longtime counselor with the GI Rights Hotline, which provides secure, free and expert support to any service member who wants to leave the military.

CALL the hotline anytime at 1-877-447-4487 for advice, or visit them online at https://girightshotline.org

Maria is Executive Director of the Center on Conscience and War: https://centeronconscience.org GI Rights Hotline

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Almost a year ago, the ekofascism series came to a dramatic painful conclusion with the green dossier and the Hunger Plan. If you at some point stopped and wondered during those last spring months how the USSR still managed to feed its people and eventually defeat the fascist monster that stood frothing at the gates of Moscow, then fear not, because the return of the repressed is returning with another longer season of answers.

The most demanding expedition yet, one that will answer questions you didn't even know you had. This investigation of the most hated scientists in western modern history, might eventually turn on its head everything you ever thought you knew about biology.

Without further ado I present to you dear listener, the story of Trofim Lysenko!

Paris Marx is joined by Grafton Tanner to discuss the dangers and consequences of companies and politicians leveraging nostalgia for their own purposes.

Grafton Tanner is the author of Foreverism. He also teaches at the University of Georgia.