The co-hosts are joined by writer, researcher, and podcaster, Corrigan Vaughan (Jack of All Graves, Wisecrack) to talk about the SPOOKIEST couple of frauds there ever was - Ed and Lorraine Warren. They talk about the Conjuring movies, and how their legendary history is mostly just taking advantage of people with mental illness or aiding other people in doing big grifts, along with a big side of "trying to bring back conservative Catholicism."
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The co-hosts are joined by journalist, researcher, and Congressional
candidate for IL-09 (parts of Chicago and surrounding areas), Kat
Abughazaleh. They talk about her history working for Media Matters
and other outlets, why she's running, the term "influencer," ICE, and so
much more.
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The co-hosts are joined by journalist and podcaster Heath Druzin
(Howl, Extremely American, Boise State Public Radio) American
discuss the direct line from Ron Paul's 2008 and 2012 presidential
campaigns to the rising popularity of the militia movements. V finally
lets one of her special interests out of the bag (this exact topic), and
Heath illuminates the story with deeper knowledge of these
movements. Groups like the Oath Keepers and Three Percenters are
discussed. We finally and frustratingly get to January 6th.
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The co-hosts continue to discuss the history of the Austrian and
Chicago schools of economics. From Uncle Milty (Milton Friedman) to
Murray Rothbard, all your least favorite economists of this era make
appearances in episodes 24 and 25 part of the Libertarianism
series. This episode shows how Rothbard especially built a coalition
that spawned one of the bridges between normal Republicans who just
kind of hated the government and virulent racists!
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The co-hosts start to discuss the history of the Austrian and Chicago
schools of economics. From Uncle Milty (Milton Friedman) to Murray
Rothbard, all your least favorite economists of this era make
appearances in This and the Next few episodes
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Sophia and V are joined by the talented journalist, Laura Jedeed, to talk
about her upbringing in the Objectivist philosophy. This is part 2 of a 2
episode block with Laura, with episode 22 being on Ayn Rand's thought
in general, and her cultural impact more broadly.
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Sophia and V are joined by the talented journalist, Laura Jedeed, to
discuss one of the right libertarian movements biggest contributors
and haters: Ayn Rand. They discuss a bit of her history, but focus on her
work and the impact it had. This is part 1 of a 2 episode block with
Laura, with episode 23 being an interview with her on her family's
adherence to the Objectivist movement.
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Sophia and V move into talking about two proto-chuds whose
admissions of elitism would make Anton LaVey blush: HL Mencken and
Albert Jay Nock. Both were brutally critical of democracy, and Nock
was one of the first figures on the right to refer to himself as
"libertarian." This episode explores three of the main characteristics of
all libertarian ideology that remain elusive unless you've had to read a
lot of this nonsense.
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Sophia, V, and Davin start a journey through the history of right
libertarianism (libertarian capitalism), starting with its ideological
forebears, and laying out some definitions. They discuss some of the
greatest sh*t-talkers in philosophical and political history - French
people in the 18th and 19th centuries. They discuss a bit of the history
of socialism, and how that relates to the inception of the word
"libertarian," as well as the birth of the word "capitalism." More
importantly, they totally don't do the song "AI SCREAM" by Japanese
idol group AiScReam. Totally never happens.
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Sophia and V continue the two part interview with Aly Wane, an
immigrants' rights activist, about his history with the work, his thoughts
about our current moment, how we got there, and where we can go
next. The connections between this and the prior interview with David
Livingstone Smith are discussed, as well as ideas on dehumanization.
The parallels between the oppression of transgender people,
immigrants, and Palestinians is discussed at length, and so is how to
find solidarity among us all, so that we can all achieve justice.
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Sophia, Davin, and V embark on the first episode of a two part
interview with Aly Wane, an immigrants' rights activist, about his history
with the work, his thoughts about our current moment, how we got
there, and where we can go next. The "post-truth" moment is
discussed, and how that informs the specific atrocities that we're all
seeing laid out before us right now, in May
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Sophia, V, and Davin interview David Livingstone Smith, a professor of
philosophy at the University of New England. The crew take a deep
dive with Professor Smith into his area of expertise - dehumanization.
They talk about how he got started studying dehumanization, how it
arises, how it leads to genocides and other atrocities, and how it relates
to our ongoing epistemic crisis (or, as we like to call it, "our sense of
collective reality crumbling"). This is an eye-opening interview about a
topic that everyone has heard of, but not enough people study, and it
gives some language for how to talk about things happening right now.
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Sophia and V are once again schooled by Davin on the court...the
actual court, though, and not physically on it, and really it's other people
that got schooled...but you get it! They talk about how a certain UConn
athlete (!!!) accidentally revealed the truth of how student athletes were
compensated (or not), and how things have changed since then. The
connection between this kind of exploitation and past exploitations is
shown clearly for the audience, and everyone is left wondering how we
fix something so monumentally broken.
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Finally, Davin gets to tell a story! He fills the other co-hosts in on the
story of the exploitation of NCAA athletes, prior to the push for
some of them unionizing. He describes the conditions that led up to
that movement, showing how the league continuously profited off
of them, while denying them any chance at making money from
their work.
Also, two announcements:
Tragically, Andrew has left the podcast, and so Davin and Sophia
must search for a new third. In this episode, they try out a new co
host, V., in this episode.
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Returning for Part 2 of their deep dive into labor history. with a (mostly) serious panel discussion, Sophia and Andrew explore where we stand today, the historical impact of labor movements, and how they can help us build a future rooted in trust, authenticity, and solidarity. Join the conversation on the past, present, and power of collective action.
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Kim Kelly ( Author, Journalist )
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Steve Mooser ( Labor History), Treasurer of the Connecticut Council on Occupational Safety and Health https://connecticosh.org/
Vice President of the Greater New Haven Labor History Association https://www.laborhistory.org/
,& former Director of Health and Safety of the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union (RWDSU)
Steve Thornton (co author of the book Radical Connecticut)
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Henry Snow (Colby College). @henrysnow.bsky.social ; https://notthisway.substack.com/
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T he co-hosts have a chance to chat with the journalist Kim Kelly, author of the book Fight Like Hell and the upcoming book Fight To Win, about how labor movements provide a way to build a society based on trust, where disinformation doesn't have a chance to flourish. They also ask her what killer metal records have been coming out lately.
The co-hosts are rounding out the journey through showing how
climate change disinformation has led us to where we are now. They
discuss the second Trump administration, and how it has, through
DOGE and its own actions, buried information on climate change in
order to benefit the American kleptocracy. They discuss the details of
grants and other funding from the federal government that would aid
research and infrastructure investments to help dull the effects of
climate change on vulnerable people.
Sophia , Andrew & Devon are joined by comedian and science educator Annam Choudhry
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. They all continue on the climate change journey, this time
discussing the careers of two men who both worked for the Cato
Institute (a right wing think tank co-founded by Murray Rothbard, one of
the Koch brothers, and another person), and we're Fox News
contributors. Those men have their work put into the context about
faith in scientific institutions falling among Republicans.
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