Mental Health, Agency and Purpose

So AA is going twice a week for the time being, so Tuesday will be music industry chat, heavy metal, tour stories, and generally chat about bands, the rock and the roll....Friday will remain more about politics, social commentary, culture, history and all of the other! Let's see how long AA keeps this up for! This one is pretty simple, how is the current war economy, the crisis in Ukraine and price of petrol, gas and energy going to affect the music industry as a whole! to support the show go towww.patreon.com/AlanAverillSupport this show http://supporter.acast.com/agitators-anonymous-the-alan-averill-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

22 Mars 202242min

The news is that AA is going to be a twice weekly podcast, looks like a Tuesday episode will be more about music, the industry, metal and tour stories/info and the Friday will remain to the episode for cultural commentary, left of field takes on society, politics and history. This being the Friday episode this one is about the war in Ukraine, how huge sections of online society seem to have simply moved from one emergency to another and begun virtue signalling and shoehorning their own moral crusade into war....from experts on virology to experts on nuclear conflagration. Where did the pandemic go? and how is still being used to implement digital ID's and new forms of undemocratic authoritarianism. This one is a spicey meatball!!!support the show atwww.patreon.com/AlanAverill Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/agitators-anonymous-the-alan-averill-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

18 Mars 202240min

Episode 98 is something of a stopgap episode while AA takes a few days off from the screen and unplugs.....a discussion that originally appeared on his Patreon last year about the Primordial album 'The Gathering Wilderness' ! if you want more content like this and to support the show go to www.patreon.com/AlanAverill Normal service will be resumed next week!!! Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/agitators-anonymous-the-alan-averill-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

14 Mars 202232min

Part two of looking at the war in Ukraine, the Nuclear component. What was game theory and how did it apply to the cold war and what does it mean now, why this changes the nature of this conflict compared to all others in recent history. is Putin a rational actor? will Ukraine become the new Afghanistan? what did the West get wrong, why are the right alligning themselves with Putin and some of the left demanding war? why are some countries still persisting with pandemic restrictions and how do we deal with our own inertia regarding the state of emergency?www.patreon.com/AlanAverillSupport this show http://supporter.acast.com/agitators-anonymous-the-alan-averill-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

11 Mars 202242min

Generals gathered in their masses.....In E 97 I try to tackle the Ukraine crisis from a few angles, personal stories, reflections on visiting both countries having spent a lot of time in Eastern Europe, the experiences, history, people and culture. Trying to understand Putin's motivations, from the fall of the Soviet Union through to the current crisis. Some dark dark Ukranian history and the region in general. Was the West naive in believing this was never going to happen? low energy costs, oligarchs, China, patriots, nazis, pipelines, once KGB always KGB and why are some people calling the coverage of the crisis racist among many many other random thoughts......this is a dark one.....get stuck inSupport this show http://supporter.acast.com/agitators-anonymous-the-alan-averill-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

4 Mars 202251min

As promised just a few weeks late a podcast about the life of Elisabeth Bathory, her story has resonated through the centuries, sex, death, murder, sadism, intrigue, witchcraft, it has all the components of a story we would click on in a heartbeat today, but what is fact and fiction? Did she really kill over 600 women making her the greatest female serial killer of them all? did she really bathe in the blood of young women? did she really have a troupe of sadistic henchwomen who did her cruel and brutal bidding in ending young womens lives in the torture dungeons of the castle? Find out in Episode 96!! Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/agitators-anonymous-the-alan-averill-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

25 Feb 202246min

Episode 95 is a chat with my old friend comedian STVE HUGHES, random and spontaneous this one is a wild ride. Best enjoyed over on my Youtube channel for the facial expressions and hand gestures! Steve is a free spirit, a deep thinker, a spiritual animal but also one who stands up for free speech and called cancel culture for what it as and the threats it as gonna pose for us all way way back in the day! He's also a bloody funny and genuinely individual guy and I could hardly get a word in edgeways! It's wild! we get into music theory, comedy, the Jimmy Carr controversy, spirituality and hallucinogenics! enjoywww.patreon.com/AlanAverillSupport this show http://supporter.acast.com/agitators-anonymous-the-alan-averill-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

18 Feb 20221h 20min

E 94 considers an overheard conversation in the post office about war, the replacement of Fiat currency, Bitcoin and the social currency system.....or was it just the new stylings of working class flirting? how the Canadian trucker story is being framed by the media, does Rogans apology mean anything or is it now just a sign of weakness for his enemies as they smell blood in the water, and what this generally means for the state of freedom of speech....heavy metal stories will resume soon AA promises!!Support this show http://supporter.acast.com/agitators-anonymous-the-alan-averill-podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

11 Feb 202242min