This week (month...summer...) we are talking about none other than FLEA. One of the world's funkiest living bassists, Flea has kept it thick on the low end for the Red Hot Chili Peppers for almost forty years. His 2019 memoir Acid For The Children enthusiastically details his life from conception to right as the Peps formed.
 
It's a tale of Dickensian proportions: street rapscallion lifestyles, dirty Hollywood escapades, 1970s high school vibes, various freaks and creeps practically vibrating off the page. Shooting cocaine on an Amtrak train, hitchhiking, actual hiking, wrap party meth sharing, jeans that show off one's camel toe, puking at the club, dine-and-dashing at the local BBQ joint, and of course the power of jazz: it's all here and sometimes it's in ALL CAPS, BABY. Join us as we trace Flea's path from Australian childhood to Anthony Kiedis-enhanced adolescence and beyond. 

"Give It Away [8 Bit Tribute to Red Hot Chili Peppers]" - 8 Bit Universe
"Night of the Thumpasorus Peoples" - Parliament Funkadelic
"I Don't Care About You" - Fear
"Out In LA" - Red Hot Chili Peppers
The National Anthem - Flea
"Give It Away" - Red Hot Chili Peppers
"Party Party Superstar" - Pretty Dim Wonder

And Introducing

#112 FLEA!

YO! Our public episode this week got FUBAR'd due to some scheduling problems but that makes this a perfect opportunity to release something from our patreon feed by POPULAR demand. I (Jake) made this a while back after playing the video game Disco Elysium and people seemed to like it. If you hate this and want us to get back to calling Barack Obama "cheugy" or whatever don't worry, we'll be back to that next week. Here's the original description:

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That's right, we're youtube video essayists now. Not really, there's no video, you don't have to watch me dressed up like Evrart Claire or whatever for an hour during this, it's just a podcast. I (Jake) played Disco Elysium recently and decided I wanted to make something to process its rich marxist themes and whatnot so here we are. That said, MASSIVE SPOILER WARNING, if you have not played this video game and think you might want to at some point, you may not want to listen to this, as the whole plot is dissected. If you're a Disco E freak or you're just curious though, enjoy.

MUSIC:
British Sea Power - Disco Elysium OST

UNLOCKED: Dread Tube #1: Disco Elysium

Anders talks to labor writer Jonah Furman about the ongoing rail strike. But first, some good vibes.

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Yeeeeaaaaahhh w/ Jonah Furman

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Z 135 - Goku's Dance Grooves w/ David Piccolomini

"Why Are We Still Governed by Baby Boomers and the Remarkably Old?," inquires The New York Times. "Why Do Such Elderly People Run America?," The Atlantic wonders. "Gerontocracy Is Hurting Democracy," insists New York Magazine’s Intelligencer. "Too old to run again? Biden faces questions about his age as crises mount," The Guardian reports.

Though these headlines are framed as exploratory questions, news media seem to have their minds made up: the problem with Washington is that it’s chock full of geezers. In recent years, we’ve often heard that U.S. policymaking, helmed at the federal level by seventy- and eighty-somethings like Donald Trump, Joe Biden, and Nancy Pelosi, and at the state level by the similarly aged Dianne Feinstein, Chuck Grassley and Pat Leahy, is simply growing too old and out of touch with the electorate.

There’s some credence to this, of course. It’s certainly true that those occupying the most powerful positions in U.S. government, on the whole, don’t legislate to the needs of the public – whether on healthcare, policing, education – the list goes on and on. But is that really because of legislators' age? Why does age have to be the focus in this analysis, rather than policy positions and, relatedly, class interests, which exist independent of age? Who does it serve to reduce the causes of U.S. austerity politics and violence to pat, Pepsi marketing-style "generation gap" discourse?

On this episode show, we detail how "generations" analysis is ineffectual and, more often than not, misses the mark. We'll discuss how fears of a "gerontocracy" can – if not in intent, in effect – malign old age itself, stigmatize the elderly and, above all, distract from what could be a substantive critical analysis of real, more profound vectors of oppression such as class, racism, sexism and anti-LGBTQ currents.

Our guest in Winslow Erik Wright.

Ep. 167: The Attractive Anti-Politics of 'Gerontocracy' Discourse

Bryan is back with Tony Boswell of Minion Death Cult

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This week: Elon Musk's car is a boat, Florida is destroyed, Jair Bolsonaro may or may not have done a funny dance

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Bathroom Radicalism

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Bong Of The Unknown Soldier w/ Conor Halbleib

It's review number two mamas! We hit you with some business tips of our own, reveal the fattest girl food ever, get drunk, roast Moniques lame ass, thirst for Grant, and worship miss Elaine. 

Follow Jake @hoe_slut_hoe on IG, go to Heaven in Bushwick, and keep your eyes peeled for Rash's reopening.

SD 162 - Undercover Billionaire 2: We're Drinking w/ Jake

We have  Aaron and Shawn from Srsly Wrong and the Means TV show “Papa and Boy”

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