In this public News Brief, we discuss a recent advice column in the New York Times advocating upwardly mobile professionals dump their fat and depressed friends and how it's part of a much broader trend of pop sociology repackaging cruelty and soft eugenics as "science-driven" self improvement.

News Brief: The Casual Soft Eugenics of Self-Help "Friendscaping" Content

Special free extra episode this week to prepare for the Election Eve in the UK. We talk to old friend, Guardian editor, and London-based expat Jonathan Shainin about the Tory bedshitting, Jezza, whether he bout to do it, and what different outcomes could mean for the future.

UK Election Special: God Save Our Jezza feat. Jonathan Shainin (6/6/17)

Our good pal Karina Moreno (@KaryinBrooklyn)comes by to talk DACA, immigration, and what to hope and dread about. 

Will's Skype call fucked with the recording and we eventually lost him so we rambled about a restaurant for the troops, Staind, and Jeb Bush.

Episode 140 - DACA Flocka Flame feat. Karina Moreno (9/9/17)

Our June 9th live show from Liberty Hall Theater in Dublin. Settle down.

For reference, video of the cop badge wall discussed in this show: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bxk2silqq4Y

Chapo Trap House

324 - Live from Dublin: Irish Valor (6/17/19)

And introducing…The Fall! It’s the story of punk rock’s orneriest group and of course the front man synonymous with the name, Mark E. Smith. Chapo Trap House’s Will Menaker joins us to learn all about Smith and the Fall through the recollections of the dozens and dozens…and dozens of musicians used up and discarded in Fall’s chaotic wake, through Dave Simpson’s “The Fallen: Life In and Out of Britain’s Most Insane Group”.

Songs
The Fall - Totally Wired (chris cover)
The Fall - Pacifying Joint
The Fall - In My Area
The Fall - Two Steps Back
The Fall - Eat Y’self Fitter
The Fall - Theme From Sparta F.C.
The Fall - Spector vs. Rector

And Introducing Podcast

#60 THE FALL! (ft. Will Menaker)

Andrew, Lucy, and Ben are joined by New York Times tech writer Mike Isaac to get deep into bean chat, the fuckedness of Airbnb, the Brazilian resistance emu, and the impenetrable mystery of Adelaide's COVID mobile.
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EPISODE 158: Cody Video '19 (Feat. Mike Isaac)

Bonus Episodes

https://youtu.be/Bb5tMUYQMps Join me and Matt Taibbi Thursday night to watch the DNC Live and play Matt's drinking game. 
Malaika Jabali and Ben Burgis respond to the "typical, vapid, empty rhetoric of the DNC and Kamala Harris, in particular. 
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Check out Ben at https://twitter.com/BenBurgis

Responding to DNC's Typical, Vapid, Empty Rhetoric with Malaika Jabali & Ben Burgis

Here's an unlocked episode of the Patreon-exclusive series 'The Boney Island Whitefish', in which Boonta Vista's Andrew and Trashfuture's Riley recap season 5 of the extremely ridiculous Bones.  To get the whole series, subscribe at https://www.patreon.com/BoontaVista

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Chapo Trap House's Will Menaker joins Andrew and Riley for an all-showrunner display of podcasting fundamentals. 

This week the brave technicians at the Jeffersonian-Medico Institute for Sexual Harassment are forced to investigate the cause of death of a very mysterious and influential historical figure! Deep respect for the boots of the American empire is sure to follow.

We also spring a gotcha Breakfast Update on Will and plan our future endeavours running a Airbnb Blockbuster so that we can lecture teens about Michael Mann films. Enjoy!

The Boney Island Whitefish in: The Last Blockbuster On The Left (Feat. Will Menaker)

Bonus episodes

UNLOCKED BONUS: The Boney Island Whitefish in: The Last Blockbuster On The Left (Feat. Will Menaker)

Andrew, Theo, and Ben talk about an important update in the realm of Moon Law, the stress levels in baboon hierarchies, cutting your hand off to spite your insurance company, and mysterious seals.
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EPISODE 166: SCP-361003

Daniel Marans joins us to decipher the election results and talk about what this means for the US political scene going forward. We dish up some harsh realities and pull no punches along the way -- consider this the first of many in-depth looks at the political realignment that's underway in the United States, which is one that the left will either benefit from or be crushed by. 

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A Cold Splash of Water to the Face w/ Daniel Marans

And introducing...singer, song-writer, composer, multi-instrumentalist, bandleader, and all around legend, it’s Mr. Frank Zappa! One of the S-tier weirdos of rock n’ roll, Zappa mixed genres from classical modernism to doo-wop with an acerbic sense of humor to create a vast discography of Rock weirdness. All the while, becoming one of the most outspoken musicians for free-speech and against censorship.  And today we’ll be talking all about his life, his works, and whether or not that’s a real poncho, I mean is that a mexican poncho or a sears poncho, through his autobiography “The Real Frank Zappa Book.”

But first let’s introduce our own guest, she’s a Tornoto-based pianist and composer, it’s Robin Hatch!

Songs In Order:

Captain Beefheart: Pachuco Cadaver
Frank Zappa and the Mothers - Wowie Zowie
Frank Zappa - Titties & Beer
Deep Purple - Smoke on the Water
Frank Zappa - Camarillo Brillo
Frank Zappa - St. Alphonso’s Pancake Breakfast
Frank Zappa - The Black Page #1
Frank Zappa - Dancin’ Fool
Frank Zappa - Titties & Beer (Baby Snakes DVD version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WzzWEeiUf3Y&ab_channel=bolimozak)