Blood Work23 Dec 2025

Chestnuts Listening on a Blood Work Fire w/ Thomas O’Mahony

For their first ever Christmas episode, Gregk and producer Thomas get together for a casual fireside chat, discussing some of the key questions animating Blood Work, reflecting on the project’s progress so far, where they’d like to take it next year, and offer some perspectives on how this thing that we call violence connects to that other thing that we call politics.

And then, as a little Christmas Treat, Gregk tells Thomas about the history of one of the worst hangovers of ‘90s counter-consumer culture jamming, and how it’s connected to some of the worst people in US culture today. New Yorkers, you knew it was bad, but if only you knew how bad it really is.

If you enjoyed this episode:

– Support Blood Work via Patreon

– Leave a rating or review on your podcast app

– Follow us on Bluesky / Instagram / Twitter

Blood Work is a Scam Goldin Production This episode was produced by Thomas O’Mahony Our theme song is ‘Dream Weapon’ by Genghis Tron Our artwork is provided courtesy of KT Kobel

THIS WEEK IN VIOLENCE – AUMF LAMF

The US’ Authorisation for the Use of Military Force (AUMF) 2001 is an authorisation so broad and loosely defined that it renders the problem of the square peg and the round hole moot; the hole’s aperture can always be widened, and virtually any peg can be hammered through. This week, I’ve picked three articles which demonstrate how its passage inaugurated a permanent, global State of Exception for US warmaking, how recklessly this aperture has been exploited, and how dangerous that is for global governance.

Available now, exclusive to Patreon supporters.

Image: Cover artwork from the 1985 The Christmas issue of An Phoblacht/Republican News.

Source: The Irish Republican Digital Archive

Det här avsnittet är hämtat från ett öppet RSS-flöde och publiceras inte av Podme. Det kan innehålla reklam.

Avsnitt(34)

The Facilitators: On Engineers w/ Gareth Dennis & Justin Roczniak

Gareth and Rocz join Gregk to account for the many crimes of modernity’s slow, silent killers – engineers, technicians, and urban planners. Follow Gareth and Rocz on Bluesky Watch Well There’s Your Pr...

24 Mars 1h 31min

Wicked Game: The History of the AK-47, Part Three [PREVIEW]

This is a preview. To hear the entire episode and help Blood Work to survive and thrive, become a supporter on Patreon. As the Soviets entered the Cold War, they had a gun they could use as conduit, c...

17 Mars 30min

Blood Flows: Arm Transfers

We trace the evolution of international arms transfers from mercantilism to the modern era, and the perverse incentives produced by the symbiosis of private enterprise and state imperatives in arms pr...

10 Mars 1h 2min

Uncle Joe’s Insurance Policy: The History of the AK-47, Part Two [PREVIEW]

This is a preview. To hear the entire episode and help Blood Work to survive and thrive, become a supporter on Patreon. It’s time to tell the story of Mikhail Kalashnikov, his eponymous gun, the horro...

3 Mars 13min

Machines Infernal: The History of the AK-47, Part 1

We begin our history of the most famous firearm of all time with a prologue: Because in order to understand how we got here, you gotta understand where we came from. Blood Work is a Scam Goldin Produc...

24 Feb 1h 30min

24 Reasons Why w/ Josh Boerman

This is a preview. To hear the entire episode and help Blood Work to survive and thrive, become a supporter on Patreon. Josh drops by the Blood Work studio to talk about one of the most mentally unhin...

17 Feb 17min

A History of Violence w/ Patrick Wyman

Prompted by a meditation on mercenaries, Gregk consults the henchest man in ancient history to discuss ancient forms of violence work and whether our current conjuncture is really a rupture, or more a...

10 Feb 1h 11min

Combat 18, Part 2: We Need Some More Lads in Here w/ Gareth Watkins [PREVIEW]

This is a preview. To hear the entire episode and help Blood Work to survive and thrive, become a supporter on Patreon. Gareth and Gregk reconvene to tell the second chapter in the C18 saga which, nat...

3 Feb 13min