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#1711 How It Started, How It's Going: Assessing the Flooded Zone Full of Shit

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Air Date: 5-21-2025

A popular MAGA refrain is, "promises made, promises kept." The key is having known which promises to take seriously. Weaponizing the government against his enemies and attempting to wield dictatorial power, sure. Benefit his supporters or the working class more broadly, or rid the government of waste, fraud, or corruption... not so much.

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#1710 The past is never dead. It’s not even past. Race, Religion, Culture and the Stories we Tell

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Air Date: 5-18-2025

The full quote from today's title is from one of the most celebrated writers of Southern American literature, William Faulkner, who said, "The past is never dead. It’s not even past. All of us labor in webs spun long before we were born, webs of heredity and environment, of desire and consequence, of history and eternity.” The new film, Sinners, set in the Jim Crow South, attempts to take on some of the subjects that make up that web of history and consequence. The theme of today's episode is an attempt to dig into many of the subjects of the film.

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#1493 Marketing, Messaging and Mass Shootings (Throwback)

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Original Air Date: 6–4-2022

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Today we take a look at some of the obvious steps we need to take to reduce gun violence in the United States, debunk some of the favored propaganda supporting unfettered gun ownership and explore the origins of how Gun Culture™ was invented by corporations as the frontier era need for guns began to vanish pushing them to convert guns from tools that were needed but not loved into items that were loved though no longer needed.

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#1275 So, Marxism. What is that all about? (Throwback)

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Original Air Date: 5–24-2019

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Today we take a look at the much-maligned, rarely-understood field of economic and social study known as Marxism.

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#1709 Monthly-ish Mix: Government Power & Its Misuse, Vulnerable Communities & Civil Rights, Cultural & Societal Transformation, Opposition & Resistance

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Air Date: 5-6-2025

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The Monthly-ish Mix™ is here to get you caught up on recent news without being overwhelming! This month we look at government surveillance overreach, challenges facing immigrant and refugee communities, the shifting landscape of American culture brought on by Christian Nationalism and the emerging broligarchy, and grassroots movements challenging institutional power.

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