Jake, Angie and River talk about the dynamic between modern men and women, Pitbulls crisis call for Cuba and Bourgeois Ideology

#096 - Cuban Pitbull Crisis feat. River Page

We don't normally do this, but we have UNLOCKED this week's premium episode because our subscribers told us we should. It will never happen again so respect and appreciate this gracious gesture.

Our friend Tim Faust (@crulge) talks healthcare: Obamacare, Ryancare, and a vision for an American road to single payer, aka Chapocare.

Episode 97 - Hollywood Upstairs Medical College feat. Tim Faust (4/6/17)

The international supervillain Sebastian Gorka (James Adomian) calls into the show again, recently hampered by a conspiracy exposing him as a member of the Hungarian fascist Vitézi Rend. Will it stop his plans to push out all other top Trump advisers and achieve global domination?

Then we talk to Alex Pareene about Trump's Syria strikes, the media’s massive, pathetic war chubby, and his piece this week about the rightwing grift that has overtaken its creators and unraveled reality.

Alex's piece: http://fusion.net/the-long-lucrative-right-wing-grift-is-blowing-up-in-t-1793944216

Episode 98 - Gorka II: The Gorkaning feat. Alex Pareene & James Adomian (4/9/17)

It's a jam-packed sode with special Chapo health correspondent Tim Faust returning to brief us on the dystopian Republican healthcare bill that passed in the House. Then we hop on the line with writer Miya Tokumitsu to talk about the tyranny of work over your life, and a future without it. 

We wrap things up with a reading series with Chapo all-star David French. 

Here's Miya's article in the New Republic: https://newrepublic.com/article/141663/united-states-work

Episode 106 - Work No Play feat. Miya Tokumitsu & Tim Faust (5/7/17)

NOTE: Due to overwhelming public demand, we made this premium episode free.

Writer and organizer R.L. Stephens is with us talking about the limits of liberal anti-racism, his critique of Ta-Nehisi Coates, organizing, pessimism, and why materialism matters.

Here's R.L.'s new piece: https://www.viewpointmag.com/2017/05/17/the-birthmark-of-damnation-ta-nehisi-coates-and-the-black-body/

Episode 113 - Hit and Run feat. R.L. Stephens (5/31/17)

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)

Jezza turned Labour and the whole UK left around, in a historic upset. The Tories' psycho leper government is doomed. The American Libs are shook. Jim Messina is in hiding. 

A spectre is haunting Britain — the spectre of the Boy.

Episode 116 - Jezz In My Pants (6/12/17)

The New Republic's Sarah Jones joins us to talk about The Resistance and how we're in it, and actually lead it, so if you don't like us you're not part of it.

We then read maybe the most openly evil reading series ever. Matt gets so mad that at 1 hour 1 minute and 20 seconds neighbors tell him to calm down.

Here's Sarah's stuff: newrepublic.com/authors/sarah-jones

Episode 118 - From Russia With CHUD feat. Sarah Jones (6/18/17)

We open with a struggle session and own Felix for being too much of an actual dirtbag. The rest of the episode is our positive review of DC Comics' Wonder Woman, why neoconservatives love it, why Lebanon really banned it, and the missed opportunity of making it in the image of the original super horned-up creator. Amber named this episode.

Episode 119 - Bating For Gadot (6/25/17)

Clio Chang (@cliomiso) joins us to talk Mark Zuccerberg, universal basic income, its popularity among libertarians and its limitations for the rest of us. For the second half of the show we read Dear Prudie letters to Amber, resident advice columnist.

Write in to Amber's column Your Sorry Ass: yoursorryass@thebaffler.com

Episode 123 - UBIsoft feat. Clio Chang (7/10/17)

Joe Prince is on to talk about Arpaio, Gorka, ComicView, and his days as a lanyard. We finish up with a vintage reading series from Ace of Spades' Genghis X.

He's Felix's Rich Piana obit: http://deadspin.com/rich-piana-lived-as-big-as-he-was-1798428768

Oh and here's the real-life Gorka supercut: www.youtube.com/watch?v=HlLhTBtpiPs

Episode 116 - Jezz In My Pants (6/12/17)

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