Track from new release, Algae-Rhythm, available on Bandcamp https://baba-x.bandcamp.com/album/algae-rhythm - EXPERIMENTAL CLUB MUSIC

If U Smile At Me

Track from new release, Algae-Rhythm, available on Bandcamp baba-x.bandcamp.com/album/algae-rhythm - EXPERIMENTAL CLUB MUSIC

Tubular Ha

James Tom from Krakatau blesses us with over 2 hours of music from his record and cd collection.

James Tom - Space'd Guest 048

On this episode of SPS, we talk about all things Mamdani -- the new DSA mayor of New York City. Your host Pamela N. sits down with former co-host Laurie R., Platypus president Erin H., and our New York member Benjamin K. -- one of the organizers of the recent Platypus Mamdani panel in NYC. We give our impressions of the Oval Office press conference, after the first Trump and Mamdani meeting, and we digest the discussion by the Left on Mamdani captured in our NYC Mamdani panel. We discuss the history of Sewer Socialism, the Second International,  and the Millennial Left's journey towards a "new New Deal."  The episode features clips from the panel recording to anchor the conversation for our listeners. The edited transcript of that panel has been published on the Platypus Review's most recent issue, linked below. We encourage our listeners to take a read! 

Links

- Platypus Panel (NYU): "Whither socialism? Mamdani and the Left," with Mitchel Cohen, Melvyn Dubofsky, Daniel Lazare, and Sebastian LM (September 26, 2025, published Nov. 2025)
Edited Transcript: https://platypus1917.org/2025/11/01/whither-socialism-mamdani-and-the-left/
Video recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRmIkNQB4ME

- Mamdani Victory Speech (Nov. 2025)
 https://youtu.be/_650kn3RpmI?si=IfgevMLTzgJEpDSh

- Michael Kinnucan, "How Zohran Mamdani Triumphed Over a Decrepit Establishment" (Nov. 2025)
https://jacobin.com/2025/11/mamdani-dsa-democrats-cuomo-socialists

- Derek Thompson, "'What Speaks to Me About Abundance': My Full Interview With Zohran Mamdani" (Jun. 2025)
https://www.derekthompson.org/p/what-speaks-to-me-about-abundance

- "Socialism in one City?" Independent Labor Club of New York event (Sept. 2025)
https://x.com/ILCofNYC/status/1964339829446946907?s=20

- "Socialism in Our Time: A Jacobin Conference" (Sept. 2025)
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/socialism-in-our-time-a-jacobin-conference-tickets-1485130077039

-   Jacobin obituary for David Dinkins, “What David Dinkins Taught Us" (Nov. 2020)
https://jacobin.com/2020/11/david-dinkins-mayor-new-york-city-obituary 

- Daniel Lazare, "Cheering on Trump" (Jan. 2025)
http://forum.permanent-revolution.org/2025/01/cheering-on-trump.html

- Mamdani Meet the Press Interview (Nov. 23, 2025)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6YNwdXW64WA

Ep 78: On Zohran Mamdani's NYC Mayoral Election

This New Years' episode of SPS comes in two parts. In the first, co-hosts Pam N. and Itsï R. take up the Epstein files. What is this about? What does it have to do with the Left?  And what does it have to do with political reality? We discuss.  In the second part, Itsï and Pam sit down with Marco T. to talk about the new Paul Thomas Anderson film, One Battle after Another (2025). We treat the film as a work of art -- try to understand the world of the film  and its nutty vision of paranoid cabals. We get into how it measures up to the rest of Anderson's work and what it reveals about the imagination of the last 15 years.  And we comment on the reviews from Jacobin, the World Socialist Website, and the National Review. 

That's a wrap for the SPS team in 2025! Thanks to our listeners for the great feedback and suggestions -- keep them coming. As always, if you like the podcast, share it, and leave us a review! It goes a long way to help us get the word out. SPS is on Spotify, Apple Podcasts and Soundcloud. If you want to send us a message, find us at shitplatypussays@gmail.com and on IG: @shitplatypussays. 

Episode Links:
- Chris Cutrone on Venezuela (Sublation Media, December 2025)
https://youtu.be/EYdgYDMqG7Y?si=LIYIAOPAYVJxCSpF
- Spartacists on Venezuela (Workers Vanguard No. 1188, December 2025)
https://iclfi.org/pubs/wv/1188/venezuela
Published after our recording so we didn't get a chance to discuss it, but take a read! 
- Jacobin review of One Battle after Another  
https://jacobin.com/2025/09/one-battle-after-another-review
- WSWS review of One Battle after Another  
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2025/10/04/xvwh-o04.html
- Armond White's review of One Battle after Another for the National Review
https://www.nationalreview.com/2025/09/there-will-be-bloodlust-in-one-battle-after-another/
- Sunit Singh's review of The Baader-Meinhof Complex (2008) (Platypus Review 12, May 2009)
https://platypus1917.org/2009/05/15/film-review-the-baader-meinhof-complex/
- SPS on Quentin Tarantino's Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
https://soundcloud.com/platypus-affiliated-society/ep19

Alone

Pluto**