If Pete Bootygig doesn't get to him first

Since you all live in NY please do episode about how Yang sucks ass. Thinking of him becoming Mayor is really depressing.

Cephalopods society, have the boys been reading Children of Ruin? 

um.... pay more than starvation wages, then?

Just saw this recently: https://www.eater.com/22417344/restaurant-labor-shortage-covid-19-unemployment-benefits-risks?utm_source=pocket-newtab Apparently being a line cook was one of the most dangerous jobs during the pandemic. People don't want to come back to a really hard job that gives them a deadly virus!

...does it creep anybody else out that she says she works at "CIA" and not "THE CIA"? CIA is a corporate entity, a tech firm or a vast consultancy.  The CIA is, well, the fuckin' CIA...

the explosion at the jaws ride hotter than ya think

Actually that was William Colby who drowned while kayaking.  The inspiration for the murder of Jon Voight's character in The Manchurian Candidate.

For #InternationalWomensDay we review a film by Hollywood’s newest female auteur, who just happens to be the wife of former Treasury Secretary/Suicide Squad producer Steve Mnuchin. Yes, it’s Louise Linton’s “Me You Madness,” a film that dares ask the question “what if a bisexual woman HAD mental health issues?”

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504 - Me Me Madness (3/8/21)

Brace makes an NFT: https://opensea.io/assets/0x495f947276749ce646f68ac8c248420045cb7b5e/104503460708576514723677294791054914639824523807549586153085114764453373542401

Episode 145: New F*ckin Trueanon

We discuss why everyone loves the big boat whomst stuck in canal, then talk about Joe Biden’s big press conference last week, as well as Biden firing of all his staffers dumb enough to report weed use on their background checks. Finally, we look at the Bessamer, AL Amazon union drive, and Amazon’s extremely ham-fisted public relations push against it.

510 - Stuck in the Middle With You (3/29/21)

We spend the first half of the episode peeling back the many, many weird & gross layers of the whole Matt Gaetz saga. Then, we’re joined by journalist Ken Klippenstein to discuss his reporting on leaked Amazon internal documents detailing their heinous work conditions and baffling anti-union PR campaign.

Check out Ken’s Amazon article in The Intercept: https://theintercept.com/2021/03/25/amazon-drivers-pee-bottles-union/

512 - Through The Dark Gaet feat. Ken Klippenstein (4/5/21)

"Yemen war: Joe Biden ends support for operations in foreign policy reset," reports the BBC. "Trump: US will be out of Afghanistan by Christmas 2020," cheered Military Times. "Trump Orders Withdrawal of U.S. Troops From Northern Syria," the New York Times told us.

For decades, the United States has very often appeared to have "ended" wars that do not, in fact, end at all. Open-ended jargon like "residual counter terror forces," "Vietnamization," "military advisors," along with deliberately ambiguous timetables, process criticisms––all are used to confuse the average media consumer. America's politicians know the American public broadly dislikes war and empire––and thus wants to see it restrained––but these same politicians don't really want to end wars so they have a frequent PR problem: How do you make it look like you’re ending a war or occupation without really doing so?

To solve this conundrum, American political leaders have perfected the art of fake-ending a war. Which is to say, announcing a war is going to end, typically around election time, only to––once the headlines make a big splash––backtrack, obfuscate, claim the "situation on the ground has changed" or the military involvement will only be in a "limited" or "defensive" capacity, shuffle troops around or find other thin pretexts to continue the war or occupation.

In this episode, we discuss the United States' history of fake-ending wars, who these pronouncements are meant to please, why troops levels are often impossible to know, and why so many of our so-called "wars" are not really wars at all, but military occupations that are never really meant to end.

Our guest is Shireen Al-Adeimi, assistant professor at Michigan State University.

Episode 133: The Art of Fake-Ending Wars

We jam our finger down on the ENTER key and EXPERIENCE the new Maxwell Family Website — www.realghislaine.com

Episode 151: #GmaxFax

Get tickets to FRQNCY1 Festival here: https://frqncy.live/frqncy1
Some more info about the festival and how it works here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/50090694

Brendan and Noah return to the show to discuss BLOWBACK, SEASON 2. We talk about the history of the Cuban revolution and the American response, the involvement of the mafia and U.S. clandestine services, and ongoing tensions in U.S.-Cuban relations. Then, we have classic reading series wherein Thomas Friedman reflects on two decades of being wrong about Afghanistan. Get flat, folks!

The new season of Blowback is on Stitcher Premium, and you can get a month free if you go to stitcher.com/premium, select a monthly plan and use the promo code: BLOWBACK. Once you sign up you can listen on your browser, or you can download the Stitcher app on your phone.

516 - Time Cuba feat. Brendan James & Noah Kulwin (4/20/21)

Author and Northwestern University history professor Daniel Immerwahr stops by to tell us about why our tech overlords in Silicon Valley are suddenly interested in all things paleo, and about why studying deep time is important.

Here is a link to the article in the New Republic that we discuss: https://newrepublic.com/article/161593/prehistoric-myth-work-james-suzman

Also buy Daniel's very good book, How To Hide An Empire: https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780374172145

Outro music by Michael Howard: https://soundcloud.com/baronvonsuckit

Support us on Patreon: patreon.com/trillbillyworkersparty

Episode 197: The Mods Must Be Crazy (w/ special guest Daniel Immerwahr)

Will and Felix report from their trip to the zoo. We review the woke CIA ad, and then discuss restaurants finding themselves hurting for employees when their lazy, entitled potential workers aren’t “economically coerced” to labor for “poverty wages”. We’re then joined by journalist Zack Kopplin to discuss his new piece on how corrupt mineral mining contracts have played a big part in our 20 year occupation of Afghanistan. Then, more zoos, animals & apes talk.

Follow Zack on twitter: @ZackKopplin
Check out Zack’s piece here:
https://www.occrp.org/en/investigations/how-afghanistans-president-helped-his-brother-secure-lucrative-mining-deals-with-a-us-contractor

And get tix for our show at the FRQNCY1 streaming festival here: https://frqncy.live/frqncy1

520 - We Went To A Zoo feat. Zack Kopplin (5/3/21)

We get Blowback’s Noah Kulwin (twitter.com/nkulw) on the line to talk about the past and present of the Cuban exile lobby.


Blowback Season 2: stitcher.com/show/blowback

Episode 157: Havana Nights

We congratulate Felix on defeating the scary monsters of Dark Souls during his successful fundraiser stream over the weekend, and also note the tiny but noticeable fissures opening up in the usually stifling discourse on Palestine. We then take a look at Bill Gates’ bro time with Jeffrey Epstein possibly being the cause of his recent divorce. Finally, there’s more UFO stuff in the news: limited hangout? New way to sell endless arms buildup? Or do the aliens just want our kindest bud? You be the judge.

If you missed the stream and would like to donate to our various Palestinian supporting orgs, links here:
Movement to Safeguard Palestinian Communities: https://www.globalgiving.org/projects/icareaboutpeace/
Islamic Relief of Canada Palestinian Emergency Appeal: https://www.islamicreliefcanada.org/emergencies/palest
Eye On Palestine: https://m.facebook.com/eyeonpalestine.offical/

And of course, tickets still on sale for our upcoming live show at the FRQNCY1 streaming festival: https://frqncy.live/frqncy1

520 - We Went To A Zoo feat. Zack Kopplin (5/3/21)

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