Giving the Mic to the Wrong Person28 Mars 2017

Ep 16 - P.S.Kayfabe - What Does It Mean?

We have a Patreon now! https://www.patreon.com/givingthemic/ Natasha(@ashesforfoxes) & Garrett(@comradegarrett) join me once again to cover why pro-wrestling is critical to an understanding of how American politics currently works, along with Linda McMahon's Senate campaigns, the feud between Andy Kaufman & Jerry 'the King' Lawler, and when Quentin Tarantino played Margaret Cho's boyfriend on her mid-90s sitcom. - The middle section has a few minutes of Marc Maron discussing how Roland Barthes made him understand wrestling, from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4IGR1VRq0y8 · Andy Kaufman challenges Jerry 'The King' Lawler: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGij4RgqLY8 and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o37-8TdqKW8&t · Vince McMahon introduces the Attitude Era in WWF: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PjBeCwz2fXg · The ending to Jodorowsky's _Holy Mountain_: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=agw27HhB4H4 · Macho Man Randy Savage's epic "Cream of the Crop" promo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8C4lK41SX-Q · Quentin Taratino on Margaret Cho's sitcom from 1995: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQIXP0oRNwY · Seth MacFarlane on ST:Enterprise: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IgKxeX0_oL4 · · · · Show Recs: · Thomas Frank - _Listen, Liberal_ · Ursela K Lequin - _The Dispossed_ · Robert Paul Wolff - "Ideology Critique" Lecture Series - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbU3yW2xIGE · the Crimetown Podcast - · Kalatazov's _Letter Never Sent_ · _Viy_ · _I Am Not Your Negro_ · Becky Bond & Zack Exley's _Rules for Revolutionaries: How Big Organizing Can Change Everything_ · Michael E Goodwin & Dan E. Burr's _Economix: How Our Economy Works (and Doesn't Work), in Words and Pictures_ · Zeal & Ardor - "Devil is Fine" - https://zealandardor.bandcamp.com/ · · · We're on Facebook now! www.facebook.com/givingthemic · Twitter: www.twitter.com/givingthemic · Comments/Questions: Givingthemic@gmail.com · Main theme by The Mysterious Breakfast'r Cereal on SoundCloud @chiptheme · Editing by Michael at Entertainment Unlimited - http://www.euavp.com · All items trademarked and copyright their respective owners. Please don't sue. Please don't sue. Please don't sue.

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89. Lain Change feat. Doug Lain

Doug Lain returns to the show! Here to tell his side of the story of what happened to Zero Books and the reviving of Diet Soap Media as a podcast/youtube channel/publishing house. Hear all the hot gos...

7 Dec 20211h 6min

88. Part 2 of Teaching Covid-Year 2 (ft. C Derick Varn, Melisa Crosby, and Beth Salmon)

Part 2 of our discussion with educators about what's been learnt in the past year plus about teaching kids(and ESL students) both online and in-person. In this part, we get into how much more stressfu...

8 Nov 202153min

88. Teaching Covid, Year 2 (part 1) - feat. C. Derick Varn, Melisa Crosby, and Beth Salmon

Part 1 of this talk, the whole ep is available now on Patreon at Http://www.patreon.com/givingthemic. - We revisit our episode from early pandemic, talking to grade school and community college educa...

31 Okt 202156min

87. Mark Levin's American Marxism - Part 2

Part 2 of our review of Mark Levin's American Marxism. It doesn't get better than Part 1. - Check out Andrew Hartman's book, _A War For The Soul Of America: A History Of The Culture Wars_ - Help us m...

12 Okt 202155min

87. Mark Levin's American Marxism: The Book - Part 1

Part 1 of 2-parter, the whole conversation is already available for patrons at http://Patreon.com/givingthemic. Part 1! Mark Levin's American Marxism book! It's a best-seller! Burning up the charts!...

4 Okt 202157min

86. [RE-UPLOAD] Leftist Veteran Chat on the Afghanistan Withdrawal and Hero Worship Culture

[FIXED AUDIO - this is corrected from the original upload]. A panel of leftist veterans and DSA members(ft. Mitch, Spencer, Marcos, and James) joins us to talk about serving in American imperial war, ...

19 Sep 20211h 41min

86. Leftist Veteran Chat on the Afghanistan Withdrawal and Hero Worship Culture

[FIXED AUDIO]. A panel of leftist veterans and DSA members(ft. Mitch, Spencer, Marcos, and James) joins us to talk about serving in American imperial war, the Afghanistan withdrawal, the "hero worship...

19 Sep 20211h 41min

85. Cancelling, with Ben Burgis

Ben Burgis returns to the show to talk about his new book _Canceling Comedians While the World Burns_ with Jacob & I. We get into the pathologies of powerlessness, better ways to handle online disagre...

6 Aug 20211h 47min