Eric Blanc joins us to talk about a recent essay he wrote assessing the break that founded the UK Labour Party, of which there are tremendous resonances with the socialist movement in the U.S., today. 

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Taking Lessons from the Break That Founded the Labour Party w/ Eric Blanc

And introducing, WE POD ECONO: an Our Band Could Be Your Life miniseries! We are taking a journey through Michael Azerrad’s chronicle of the 1980’s American underground rock scene, continuing today with Chapter Three: Mission of Burma! We’re joined by author Rob Sheffield to talk Boston excellence, Zines, radio, Clown Night, and the Horrible Truth About Burma!

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Songs:
Mission of Burma - Peking Spring
Mission of Burma - That’s When I Reach For My Revolver
Mission of Burma - That’s How I Escaped My Certain Fate
Mission of Burma - Treme Two (Live, ‘83)
Mission of Burma - 2wice

And Introducing

#88 MISSION OF BURMA! (ft. Rob Sheffield)

And introducing WE POD ECONO: an Our Band Could Be Your Life miniseries! We are taking a journey through Michael Azerrad’s chronicle of the 1980’s American underground rock scene, continuing today with Chapter Ten: Dinosaur Jr.! We’re joined by Time Crisis and Mountain Brews’ Jake Longstreth to take a look at Dinosaur Jr., the band that pushes volume, epic guitarmanship, and toxic interpersonal relationships to the absolute limit.

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SONGS IN ORDER:
Deep Wound - I Saw It
Dinosaur Jr. - The Leper
Dinosaur Jr. - Poledo
Dinosaur Jr. - Sludgefest
Dinosaur Jr. - The Lung
Dinosaur Jr. - Freak Scene
Dinosaur Jr. - I Ran Away
Dinosaur Jr. - Crumble
Dinosaur Jr. - Show Me The Way

#95 DINOSAUR JR. (feat. Jake Longstreth)

AND introducing WE POD ECONO: an Our Band Could Be Your Life miniseries! We are taking a journey through Michael Azerrad’s chronicle of the 1980’s American underground rock scene, FINISHING today with Chapter Thirteen: Beat Happening! We’re talking Calvin Johnson, K Records, and exploding the teenage underground into passionate revolt against the corporate ogre with our guest Maria Sherman!

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SONGS
Supreme Cool Beings - Our Advice To You
Beat Happening - Look Around
Beat Happening - Our Secret
Beat Happening - Bad Seeds
Beat Happening - Midnight a Go-Go
Beat Happening - Indian Summer
Beat Happening - In Between
Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet - Having an Average Weekend
Beat Happening - Hot Chocolate Boy
Dub Narcotic Sound System - Banana Meltdown

#98 BEAT HAPPENING! (ft. Maria Sherman)

Andrew, Lucy, Theo, and Ben are all here to talk about Dan Andrews turning public housing into Dredd (2012), whether or not the contiguous United States will be here in a decade, and NSW Police making and selling their own drugs to stop drugs being made and sold.
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Andrew, Lucy, and Ben take a break from spoiling the end of Uncut Gems to talk about hysterical, dairy-addled cops pretending to be poisoned to make people like them, and try fit the perverted French Canadians into existing show canon.
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EPISODE 156: Strike Farce Dominion

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Part two of…the Song Machine! We track pop music’s muddled fallout from 9/11 (again), the reign of Max Martin and Dr. Luke, track-and-hook songwriting, Rihanna, Katy Perry, Kesha and the f u t u r e  of pop.

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Songs in order:
Kelly Clarkson - A Moment Like This
Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Maps
Kelly Clarkson - Since U Been Gone
Ted Leo - Since U Been Gone/Maps
Rihanna - SOS
Rihanna - Umbrella
Rihanna - What’s My Name
Beyonce - Halo
Kelly Clarkson - Already Gone
Katy Perry - I Kissed a Girl
Flo Rida (FT KESHA) - Right Round
Kesha - Tik Tok
Kesha - Raising Hell
Juice WRLD x Marshmello - Come & Go

And Introducing Podcast

#75 THE SONG MACHINE! pt. 2

As I was preparing to go to bed last night, Liz revealed to me that she had no idea who Cobra Tate was. I had to pull out the microphones to explain. Enjoy.

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Cobra Tate and the Funniest Online Grifting Gang

And introducing, on lead vocals and guitar, it’s Mr. Robert Pollard! We’re joined by Dan Boeckner (Wolf Parade, Operators) to talk about the frontman synonymous with Guided by Voices, the prolific indie legends from Dayton Ohio.

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Songs: 
Acid Ranch - Beautiful Plastic
Guided by Voices - Drinker’s
GBV - Weedking
Times New Viking - (My Head)
GBV - Tractor Rape Chain
GBV - Closer You Are
GBV - Official Ironman’s Rally Song
GBV - Teenage FBI
GBV - Glad Girls
GBV - Packing the Dead Zone

#76 ROBERT POLLARD & GUIDED BY VOICES! (ft. Dan Boeckner)

It's another installment of The Theo Philes, as Ben and Theo surprise and delight each other with the incredible post-death life of Ötzi the Iceman and the horrible pre-death unlife of Shingy.
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EPISODE 167: The Theo Philes III - To Mr and Mrs The Iceman, a Son, Ötzi / Digital Prophet Of Regret

We talk about part 3 of the Adam Curtis video essay series.

#127 - Century of the Self: Kill the Cop in Your Head

Elements inside the Democratic Party establishment raised a mutiny against AOC last week and we should probably talk about it... Joining us to do just that is Alex Samman, staff writer at The American Prospect. We break it down and try to suss out just what the hell is going on.

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See his article here: 
https://prospect.org/politics/establishment-strikes-back-aoc-versus-centrist-democrats/