Episode 102: Who Was John Brown?
What are the do’s and don’ts of leading a slave rebellion? How many sons does this guy have, anyway, and why is one of them named Salmon? What do trains have to do with Bleeding Kansas? Find out the a...
12 Touko 20221h 43min
Episode 101: Who Was Paul Robeson?
It’s another music episode! We chat about Paul Robeson, a way too talented guy who was a football player, actor, singer, civil rights activist, communist, and a correctly typed Aries. We also get into...
5 Touko 20221h 22min
Episode 100: Communist Movie Club - The Young Karl Marx
Despite the best efforts of Dave and Dan and our pesky cats, we manage to record an episode talking about the movie The Young Karl Marx. Marx is a wife guy. Engels has drip. Christine does a bad Frenc...
28 Huhti 20221h 17min
Episode 99: Who Was Julius Nyerere?
Who’s that guy who led Tanganyika, then Tanzania, then did some socialism, then got nominated for sainthood? Oh yeah, it’s Julius Nyerere, the subject of our podcast today! Check us out on social me...
21 Huhti 20221h 39min
Episode 98: The Conquest of Hawaii
This week, Grady tells us about the United States backed coup to takeover an independent kingdom, better known as the annexation of Hawaii. The characters in this tale include scammers, missionaries, ...
14 Huhti 20221h 17min
Episode 97: Food and Capitalism, Part 2
Let’s talk more about food! We cover organic farming, grazing management, the ethics of eating animals, and wrap up with our overall thoughts on how capitalism affects our relationship with food and h...
7 Huhti 20221h 41min
Episode 96: Food and Capitalism, Part 1
What does corn have to do with capitalism? A lot, apparently! Find out how this weird grass has taken over almost every aspect of agriculture. Hilariously enough, after this episode Christine came dow...
31 Maalis 20221h 46min
Episode 95: Listener Q&A 8
It’s our seasonal mailbag episode! We answer questions about aliens, Judas Iscariot, serial killers and the Smurfs? My Wikipedia search history is wild, ya’ll. We also take a leftist values quiz and d...
24 Maalis 20221h 31min
