Pointless Jobs

Hey Comrades,

This episode Thad, Red, and I discuss pointless jobs. Again it will be 3 weeks until the next episode instead of the regular 2.

Pointless Jobs

Notes:

David Graeber Article

Quick Update

As you may have noticed there isn’t a new episode up. We’re having to record further  out than we wanted, so next week there will be a new episode. Then in another 3 weeks will be the next one. Hopefully after that we can get back to every 2 weeks again.

-Tony 

Keys to Economic Prosperity

Hello!

So we had a bit of a gap in our releases. Sorry about that (we really do aim to have them regularly every two weeks, I promise), Red had gone on his honeymoon and the end of the summer got really busy, so we hadn’t been able to get together until just today to record. There aren’t any other gaps that we know of, and we’ll try and let everyone know if we know one will be coming up in the future.

Anyway as far as this episode goes, we’re looking at the ideology and logic of what a mainstream economics college textbook sees at the 10 Keys to Economic Prosperity.

Keys to Economic Prosperity

-Tony

Episode: The Third Industrial Revolution

Hello all,

In this episode Red, Thad, and I discuss the so called upcoming third industrial revolution and the possible futures that it could bring about.

The Third Industrial Revolution

-Tony

New Episode: Evergreen

Hey there,

New episode for you. This one we are discussing some issues that happened earlier in the year at Evergreen State College in Washington (state). We touch on lots of different topics from racism, to discourse, to tactics for organizing.

Evergreen

 

Notes:

Where you can find Prof. Weinstein’s letters

The confrontation outside his class

 

The song Everyone’s a little bit racist:

And where you can find the book Secrets of a Successful Organizer 

Trump vs The World

Howdy,

This episode we’re discussing Trump’s foreign policy and more (where the conversation wanders around to). Apologies again for the electric noises, we recorded this immediately after the previous episode, so we were still unaware of the problem when we recorded.

Trump vs The World

Links:

The drone strike app

Article from The Intercept (ok both are from The Intercept, this is the one about right wing terrorism in the US)

UK Elections

 

Hello,

So in an always timely manner we’re discussion the elections in the UK, that happened about a month ago. Nevertheless it’s a good discussion and one of us correctly predicts what did happen. Also apologies for the few electrical clicks that are in here, it looks like we may need to get some new mic cords.

UK Elections

Links:

Here’s the CGP Grey videos on the City of London:

Trump Land, Part 2

Hello comrades,

Here is part 2 of our discussion about Trump. First off I’d like to apologize about the eating sounds in the last, there are a few in this one that I wasn’t able to remove as well, so apologies. There also was some electronic clicking for a little bit (I think we may be in need of some new mic cords), so apologies for that as well. We pick up our discussion from last time talking about the Democrats, the resistance to Trump, the Democratic Socialists of America, G.W. Bush, and of course our fascist president.

Trump Land, Part 2

Links:

Comrade Trevor Hill politely grilling Pelosi:

 

The Article by Seth Ackerman that I got the name wrong on (it’s “A Blueprint for a New Party”):

https://www.jacobinmag.com/2016/11/bernie-sanders-democratic-labor-party-ackerman

 

And I, Tony, was wrong. I was conflating these two statements:

New Episode! Trump Land, Part 1

Hey everyone,

Been a while. You’ll notice that we say in this episode that we recorded this on the day of the French elections, which is a bit ago already. The reason for the lag is that we wanted to build up a backlog of recordings so that even we aren’t able to get together and record for a while, there will not be a gap in our releases for months at a time. We really enjoy doing the podcast (and we hope that you enjoy listening). We don’t aim to have months of time without any episodes, but sometimes life (and busy schedules) gets in the way. We hope to put out new episodes every two weeks for you.

Right then, the last episode we did dealt with the election. This episode we discuss our thoughts on Trump and his administration. We talked a long time on this, so this is just part one of two.

Trump Land, Part 1

-Tony

Episode 5-5: The Election

Hi,

This episode Red, Thad, and I discuss the election.

Episode 5-5: The Election (39 Mbs, 51 mins)

-Tony