Guys We Know

We are back finally about 2-3 weeks too late with reference to the whole Afghanistan shit but this is actually about bureaucracy and power and more nebulous navel gazing stuff so it's ok timeless issues that only we can tackle with powerful brains and full hearts.

Special guest Kyle Jackson is kind enough to join the show and challenge us on our general approach to forever ongoing Class vs. Race analysis of politics on the left. We use the 1619 Project as an example to get off the ground, and branch out into some of the broader more central disagreements that we have. NYT: We Respond to the Historians Who Critiqued The 1619 Project: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/20/magazine/we-respond-to-the-historians-who-critiqued-the-1619-project.html The...

Matt and I discuss the films of Quentin Tarantino as well as a clip from Douglas Laine at Zero Books discussing Adam Curtis' new series. I attempt to relate all this to the subconscious desires of the mass murderer/terrorist. Matt does a good job of defending the stale and all-encompassing Marxist interpretation of all things. See: https://nonsite.org/django-unchained-or-the-help-how-cultural-politics-is-worse-than-no-politics-at-all-and-why/...

Matt lays down a juicy narrative for why everything's so totally whacked from the basic premise of Mike Macnair's essay: "Intersectionalism, the highest stage of western Stalinism?" in 'Critique: Journal of Socialist Theory' https://classunity.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/intersectionality.pdf

This is the last time we talk about Trump ever I swear.

In which we use an offhanded clip from funnyman Tim Dillon to very pedantically point out some gaps in conventional logic when it comes to understanding the 2008 financial collapse (and financial crises as a whole.)

Catching up With Goings-On by Guys We Know

It's time.

In which we discuss a hot topic coldly, using NOT ONE BUT TWO ARTICLES BY WOMEN as a reference for our conversation: The Left Case against Open Borders by Angela Nagle: https://americanaffairsjournal.org/2018/11/the-left-case-against-open-borders/ The Case for Open Borders by Suzy Lee https://catalyst-journal.com/vol2/no4/the-case-for-open-borders#fn-no-34

Adam regales us with tales from the front lines of the protest and renounces his word policing ways. (Slurtown, here we come baby.) Also we cover the book "How to be an Antiracist" by Ibram X. Kendi https://www.amazon.com/How-Be-Antiracist-Ibram-Kendi/dp/0525509283

Corey's making me write the descriptions now I guess. I use the fact that Corey is sort of not-totally-white as a shield to defend myself from charges of "class reductionism" as I half-assedly summarize my cool vicarious grandpa Adolph Reed and some other people in a probably futile effort to take the lens off race and refocus it on class in the context of ongoing protests against police brutality citations: https://catalyst-journal.com/vol3/no3/the-economic-origins-of-mass-incarceration...

We take a little reprieve from the heavy stuff and dive into Jesse Lee Peterson and all he's about with guest Ryan. Intro and Outro Music Credit: Trevor Wesley (sorry if you didn't want us to use this but it was so good.) https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwKaeH84d421uSawL1f5ZoA

Is BIll Gates a eugenicist? Are you? How does climate change make you feel in your bones? WIll Matt agree with anything said by our guest this week? This and more with special guest Ben.

Populism remains untapped. Matt and I leave things left unsaid. Adam comes forth with equal parts anger and humility about the national situation. I refrain from saying anything interesting. Will our heroes survive this omnipresent turbulence? Stay tuned to our various channels for various amounts of time to find out!!!!!

Join us as we talk remotely about the bailout and the tricky world of QE and cheap cash. Stay inside. Stay drunk.

In which we discuss a section from the book "Alienation" by Rahel Jaeggi about the in's-out's of self-alienation and get into it with dinosaurs, quantum physics and washing holes.

Matt talks at me about Iraq for long enough to convince anyone who listens long enough that Bush was indeed right in every decision he made.

Our guest Adam has been charged with the task of objectively describing the music of Primus. Inevitably this feat proves itself to be too difficult, and we take a moment to reflect on some of the more sophomoric choices of words we've used on the show. Check out Adam's work at: http://www.adamzahller.com/

Join us in another mega-sized episode where we talk about the family as an idea and the political and economic forces that move, shape and respond to it.

Matt tricked me into talking about TOOL songs for 2 hours and I kept trying to bring up Epstein.