Brief: Watching Andor with the Kids (Pt 1)
Conspirituality7 Jun 2025

Brief: Watching Andor with the Kids (Pt 1)

Matthew continues the Antifascist Woodshed series with a two-part analysis of an extraordinary cultural event: rebellions within rebellions—or how a ragtag band of writers and worldbuilders Trojan-horsed an antifascist masterpiece into the Empire of streaming content. Seven chapters: Space Wizards or Antifascism? Star Wars Culture Wars A Post-Fragmentary Left (Monday on Patreon:) Hope and Love Tony Gilroy’s Antifascist Field Manual The Used Future Antifascist Parents Are Better than Jedi Parents NB: There will be spoilers for Andor! Show Notes The Mythology of Star Wars with George Lucas and Bill Moyers Special Interview: Nostalgia for the Superego (w/Sam Binkley) — Conspirituality Movie Review – THX 1138: The George Lucas Director's Cut – A Sci-Fi Geek Looks at George Lucas' First Film 8 women accuse screenwriter Max Landis of sexual, emotional abuse - National | Globalnews.ca 'Star Wars' Actress Amandla Stenberg's 'White People' Remark Sparks Fury - Newsweek 'The Acolyte' Star Amandla Stenberg Cracks Up at 'Gayest Star Wars' Moniker: It's 'So Gay Already!' | Video Amandla Stenberg Slams Anti-‘Woke’ Attacks And ‘Intolerable Racism’ Over ‘The Acolyte’ Sorry, haters, Star Wars: The Force Awakens’ new characters more than make up for the movie’s sins | Vox Star Wars: The Bad Batch Season 2 - Official 'Omega & Tech' Clip (2023) The Bad Batch: Tech’s death and the neurodivergent community Why Our Autism Community Loves Star Wars - Kerry Magro Virtue Hoarders and the Rejection of Liberalism (w/ Catherine Liu) | The Chris Hedges Report The problem with identity politics | Counterfire Transcript: Andor: Tony Gilroy on Oppressive Regimes and Popular Revolutions - The Peabody Awards Star Wars: A New Heap Music: Brief: Star War fan-made music from Luis Humanoide: Trust Only in the Force Bonus: Star War fan-made music from Luis Humanoide: Dark Ruins Exploration Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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235: MAHA Mamas (feat Mallory DeMille)

235: MAHA Mamas (feat Mallory DeMille)

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Bonus Sample: Deep State Religion

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Brief: The $100M Free Press

Brief: The $100M Free Press

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234: Trump’s Conspiracist Cabinet

234: Trump’s Conspiracist Cabinet

Since the election, Democratic voter disbelief and despair has alternated between grief and rage. We watched some erstwhile vociferous critics of Trump in the legacy media, like Joe Scarborough and Mi...

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Relief Project #4: Rob Schenck

Relief Project #4: Rob Schenck

Matthew here with the fourth installment of Five Big Questions Posed to an Extremely Thoughtful Person.  Rob Schenck joined me in Episode 199 to discuss his deradicalization from the Evangelical anti-...

26 Nov 202419min

Bonus Sample: The UFOs Are Being Censored!

Bonus Sample: The UFOs Are Being Censored!

The climate denialist who exposed the so-called “censorship industrial complex” returns, this time at another congressional hearing. Michael Shellenberger has come to blow the whistle on Big Governmen...

25 Nov 20246min

Brief: How to Fire a Billionaire

Brief: How to Fire a Billionaire

AG1 built a billion-dollar brand in large part by tapping into the fitness and wellness podcast and YouTube markets. Recently, AG1’s founder, Chris Ashenden, resigned after a decades-old real estate s...

23 Nov 202438min

233: DC’s Catholic Power Center (w/Gareth Gore)

233: DC’s Catholic Power Center (w/Gareth Gore)

Josemaria Escriva founded Opus Dei, an ultra-conservative, high-demand, secretive Catholic organization in Madrid, Spain, after receiving a supposed vision from God in 1928. His small inner circle ini...

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