On our maiden voyage, we deliver an elegy for JD Vance's bestseller 'Hillbilly Elegy' while also paying homage to R+B legends Gerald Levert (RIP), Keith Sweat, and Johnny Gill.

*Upon further review, Eric Williams, whom we do a bit about on this one, is a respected scholar whose words we clearly took out of context and drew the wrong conclusions about. His radical critique of capitalism and the slave economy was a gap in our knowledge, and we're embarrassed to say we botched that one. But, still, fuck JD.

Episode 1: JD Vance A Snitch

In this episode, we bring you an interview with Kevin Rashid Johnson, who has been incarcerated since 1990 in prisons throughout the U.S., most recently in Southwest VA.  Benny Becker spoke with Johnson by phone, about his own experiences on the inside, histories of organizing from within prison walls, and the national prison strike taking place right now.

The strike, which runs from August 21st - September 9, 2018 has a list of demands, including that "All persons imprisoned in any place of detention under United States jurisdiction must be paid the prevailing wage in their state or territory for their labor." Currently, incarcerated folks are paid next to nothing for their work. So, on this Labor Day, we bring you voices from an ongoing labor struggle inside U.S. Prisons.



Self portrait by Rashid Johnson from his website rashidmod.com

Rashid Johnson & The National Prison Strike

A Chinese religious cult undergoes a massive government crackdown. In response, they found a newspaper in the United States and set out to combat Beijing. But why did one of their journalists hand a mysterious envelope to Trump? This week we're joined by Jared Holt — repeat guest, journalist for Right Wing Watch and host of the Shitpost Podcast — to discuss The Epoch Times and its relationship to the Falun Gong cult.

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Episode 75: The Epoch Times feat Jared Holt

One of the most prized professional norms for journalists, particularly the United States, is the preservation of neutrality in reporting. While the concept of “objectivity” has fallen out of fashion among mainstream reportage in recent years, related concepts that convey a similar idea such as “impartiality” and “neutrality” have come to replace it. In their mission statements and codes of ethics, corporate and government owned outlets routinely proclaim the importance of impartiality and balance, in the sanctified pursuit of fair, unbiased reporting. 

In theory, this can be a healthy idea. Distinguishing between so-called opinion or editorial versus neutral, down-the-middle reporting –“objectivity” or “impartiality” can give the reader a sense that a series of facts are being reported rather than some guy’s opinion. 
The fundamental problem is when this vaguely aspirational genre morphs into an unchecked ideology––an ideology that requires one to think we live in a world where said facts are curated and created outside of long-existing power structures; that those who produce, on an institutional scale, knowledge products via think tanks and academic institutions are without bias. That journalistic institutions, funded by large corporations and billionaires themselves, don’t decide which neutral facts are important and which aren’t. 

“Objectivity” that doesn’t calibrate power asymmetries or attempt to account for its own institutional ideology isn’t a mode of reporting, it’s conservative conditioning that––if not in intent, in effect––does little more than advance prevailing ruling class ideology. Indeed, anyone who’s ever studied marketing or PR or propaganda will tell you the most effective messaging is that which appears unbiased and impartial.

On today’s show, we’ll examine how objectivity came to be a defining principle of Western journalism and how U.S. media’s understanding of impartiality provides an urbane veneer for racism, homophobia, anti-poor policies and other reactionary currents.

We are joined this week by journalist Lewis Raven Wallace, author of The View from Somewhere: Undoing the Myth of Journalistic Objectivity.

Episode 102: The Conservative Sanctimony of Journalistic Impartiality

How the Knights Templar inspired a modern-day cult movement that caused dozens of deaths in the mid-90s. We trace the path of Neo-Templarism from the Crusades to the (burning) Swiss chalets of the late 21st century. Behold 'The Order of the Solar Temple', an international organization run by long-time Neo-Templar & convicted criminal Joseph Di Mambro with his buddy the New Age doctor Luc Jouret.

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SOURCES:
‘The Order of the Solar Temple: The Temple of Death’ Ed. James R. Lewis (2016)
https://books.google.com/books?id=Rb9hjbzVKO0C
‘“Our terrestrial journey is coming to an end”: the last voyage of the Solar Temple’ Jean-Francois Mayer (2003) https://english.religion.info/2003/06/12/our-terrestrial-journey-is-coming-to-an-end-the-last-voyage-of-the-solar-temple/
https://www.rcinet.ca/en/2018/10/04/history-canada-october-41994-an-international-cult-tragedy-begins/
https://www.cbc.ca/archives/entry/solar-temple-cult-the-gory-details-of-morin-heights
‘Secret Societies’ John Lawrence Reynolds (2011)
https://books.google.com/books?id=UrUtAgAAQBAJ
‘Etouffées, quand la justice enterre les affaires’ Karl Zero (2016)
https://books.google.com/books?id=j9kfDAAAQBAJ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2KrCctV8V0 
https://wrldrels.org/2016/10/08/order-of-the-solar-temple/
https://infosect.freeshell.org/infocult/phenomene/English/HTML/doc0008.htm
https://www.encyclopedia.com/science/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/di-mambro-joseph-1924-1994
https://www.leparisien.fr/faits-divers/il-existe-encore-des-adeptes-de-l-ots-dans-le-monde-26-10-2006-2007449589.php

Premium Episode 81: The Order of the Solar Temple (Sample)

This week we tackle the richest man in Europe, and briefly this year, the richest man in the world, luxury megabillionaire Bernard Arnault. We investigate his privileged upbringing, the sketchy background of the company he built his wealth on, and speculate on his relationship with Alligator mississippiensis. Part 2 will be available later this week on https://www.patreon.com/grubstakers.

Rest in power Michael Brooks.

Episode 179: Bernard Arnault (Part 1)

Comedian Clark Jones joins us to do a CHILL episode where we RELAX and talk comedy bullshit as well as Kamala's dad, the DNC, the Washington Football Team and the god damned libs.

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We talk with historian and writer Daniel Bessner about Rand Paul, Graceland, international organizations, covid, climate change, and whether or not there is a future.

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And introducing, online, it’s Rolling Stone Magazine’s NEW 500 Greatest Albums of All Time List! We discuss Rolling Stone’s updated-for-2020 list of the 500 greatest albums of all time, talk about the value of lists, the relative ranked-ness of the Beatles, and how our appreciation of music changes over time.

Songs:
Britney Spears - Piece of Me
Beatles - Day in the Life
Marvin Gaye - What’s Going On
Beach Boys - Sloop John B
Fleetwood Mac - Dreams
Lauryn Hill - To Zion

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#80 THE 500 GREATEST ALBUMS!

Conspiracy theories, melted online communities and cursed media — we pry open the cracks in consensus reality and journey into the hidden worlds below. The QAA Podcast is a mix of reporting, comedy, and history hosted by Jake Rockatansky, Travis View, and Julian Feeld along with co-hosts Annie Kelly, Liv Agar and Brad Abrahams. Formerly known as the QAnon Anonymous podcast.