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What starts as a rational critique of the Reformation turns into a wild, sex crazed, blood thirsty, and heavily armed cult ruled by a man who thinks he can cure blindness by spitting in someone's eye while mass executions take place via comically oversized anime sword.

The Anabaptists of Munster eventually turn everyone against them from Martin Luther to the Catholics to their own believers who simply like their wives.

Content Warning: Everything, throughout the series.

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Sources:

Anthony Arthur. The Tailor King: The Rise and Fall of the Anabaptist Kingdom of Munster

Peter Vansittart. The Siege.

Paul Ham. New Jerusalem: The short life and terrible death of Christendom's most defiant sect

Episode 316 - The Münster Rebellion: Part 1

"Legalize and Regulate Sports Betting," NBA Commissioner Adam Silver wrote in The New York Times in 2014. "NFL Betting Promos & Bonuses | Top NFL Betting Sites & Offers for Week 9 NFL Odds & More," USA Today offered readers in 2023. "Bookmakers break down NBA, NHL playoffs, big bets," reads a June 2024 Fox Sports headline.

It's not an exaggeration to state that, since its legalization in 2018, sports betting and other forms of sports gambling have all but taken over American sports media. Increasingly, over the last six years, leading sources on sports news, including ESPN, Fox Sports, CBS, and NBC, have signed multi-million and billion-dollar agreements with major players in the sports betting industry, and launched suites of gambling-themed verticals, podcasts, and series designed to urge viewers and listeners to keep placing their bets, no matter the social costs.

These media platforms claim to reason that, amid a shifting media landscape where cable channels struggle to adapt to the streaming era and legacy newspapers hemorrhage advertising revenue, partnerships with sports gambling companies help keep them afloat. But what does it mean when sports media are beholden to betting companies? Given the predatory nature of the industry, and the clear conflict of interest of sports media also being gambling pushers, what are the social and political costs to shifting sports from an admittedly already very flawed entertainment business, to a widespread peddler of increasingly unsustainable and gimmicky gambling opportunities? On this episode, we examine how sports media in the U.S. have increasingly embedded themselves in the exploding online sports betting industry. We look at the corrosive effect this has on sports coverage, the glaring conflict of interest this generates, and the moral hazards of a media climate (and state and local governments) that welcomes with open arms a regressive tax pushed by a notoriously rapacious and exploitative industry. 

Our guest is, friend of the show, The Nation's Dave Zirin.

Episode 206: How the Gambling Industry Swallowed Sports Media Whole

In this public News Brief we analyze the new Democratic nominee's "shift in tone" and whether more sophisticated Empathy-Speak and continued appeals to bogus "ceasefire negotiations" signifies a meaningful break from Biden.

News Brief: Substance vs Vibes in VP Kamala Harris' Gaza PR Reboot

In this public News Brief, we discuss a new, detailed media survey by Zach Siegel that shows how news outlets mindlessly parrot police "accidental fentanyl overdoes" misinformation.

                              

News Brief: A Quantitative Analysis of US Media's Fentanyl Panic and How It Kills

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Abby and Mike discuss the current state of the 2024 presidential election following Harris's pick for VP & its implications for the Palestine solidarity movement, as well as the new US attempts to undermine democracy in Venezuela.

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Walz With Bashir + Venezuela Coup 6.0

Catching up on Trump's odds, Harris-Walz news, and the New Confederacy (Israel)

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Episode 354: Prospectors Division

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*PREVIEW* The U352, The Dumbest U-Boat of WWII

The US empire is up to its elbows in the middle east working frenetically to manipulate what happens there, while in the United States itself homelessness has taken another record-shattering leap forward.

Reading by Tim Foley.

The Empire Burns The Middle East While US Homelessness Surges

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News Brief: A Quantitative Analysis of US Media's Fentanyl Panic and How It Kills

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