49th Parahell

After a passionate defence of our embattled PM and his unique brand of Radical Empathy, Davide Mastracci joins the show to talk about Ezra Levant's Globe & Mail op-ed and how the media class obsession with vague journalistic ideals is ruining journalism. support the show on patreon: http://www.patreon.com/49thParahell

It's election season, baby! In Canada now, too. So Andrew Neville of Dog Island joins the show for a super special election preview spectacular. Also a few words on Joe Biden's ongoing physical and cognitive decline. Support the show on patreon: http://www.patreon.com/49thParahell

Between Joe Biden's brain liquifying climate townhall performance, Trump's insane Alabama fixation and Boris Johnson's unbelievably terrible start as UK Prime Minister, Rob wonders whether the simulation is crashing or if he's simply losing his grip on reality. Then Abby Martin joins the show to talk about her new film Gaza Fights for Freedom, the Great March of Return and the ongoing human rights...

I go over the wonderful Bret Stephens/bedbug saga, a now-former Quillette "journalist" possibly facing some legal issues, and the latest in the profoundly undemocratic brexit process, then Livposting joins the show to discuss the ancient art of billionaire boat murder and help shatter Canada's carefully managed and marketed image as a nation that has moved beyond its violent settler colonial roots...

David Koch tragically dies in an (alleged) most dangerous game gone wrong, the Amazon is on fire but business is booming, and bad faith conservatives are bending over backwards to handwave away Trump's obvious antisemitism. Also, Vice's Mack Lamoureux joins the show to talk about his experiences covering the rise of the Canadian far right, the increasingly obvious rhetorical crossover between extr...

I speculate on how the Epstein case would have impacted the Clinton Administration in the alternate brunch universe, than Abi Wilkinson joins the show to explain the latest Brexit drama involving Jeremy Corbyn's godfather offer to the LibDems and Tory rebels, how the rise of Corbyn (and Bernie Sanders) has exposed all kinds of ruling class contradictions, and more. Support the show on Patreon: htt...

Brandon Sutton/Chad Vigorous joins the show again to talk about Quillette/DSA drama, mass shootings, the various ways establishment media has repeatedly failed to accurately describe the reality of the American dystopia and more. Support the show on patreon: patreon.com/49thParahell

Andray Domise returns to the show for the first time since episode two, and we wonder whether the discourse around concentration camps in the US has progressed at all since we last spoke, or if canada's migrant detention issues have improved in any way. we also preview our upcoming horrific election season and more. Support the show on Patreon: patreon.com/49thParahell

Political cartoonist Eli Valley returns to the show to talk to me about Trump's increasingly apparent fascism, the targeting of Ilhan Omar, the ways in which the political/media establishment has failed to confront the crisis of the Trump presidency, and how the modern far right uses Jewish trauma to advance their toxic & oppressive agenda. Support the show on Patreon: www.patreon.com/49thParahell

Travis View of the Qanon Anonymous podcast joins me to talk about the emerging, depraved details of the Jeffrey Epstein case, and how the Qanon community is not only reacting to his arrest but reconciling it with his longtime association with President Donald Trump. Then I put on my own conspiracy theorist hat, tug at some of the loose threads around the Epstein case and start to wonder just how d...

It's been yet another week of terrible, mind-numbing discourse, so three-time guest Karen Geier returns to the show to help me break down Portland's Ngo Go Zone, the Patriot Prayer rally, concrete milkshakes, right wing disinformation and much more. Support the show on Patreon: http://patreon.com/49thParahell

Sam Knight of District Sentinel joins 49th Parahell for the second time to break down this week's two democratic debates as well as Nancy Pelosi setting a new high water mark in a long career of pathetic capitulations to the GOP. Support the show on patreon: http://www.patreon.com/49thParahell

I go over the brain-melting concentration camp discourse that took place this week and talk about why debating conservatives is a useless endeavour, then Emma Jackson joins me to talk about the Green New Deal, the Trans Mountain Pipeline, the highly similar liberal/conservative approaches to climate policy, the future of climate justice and more. Support the show on Patreon: www.patreon/com/49thPa...

It's a solo episode! I go over the way conservative pundits bent over backwards to not discuss the actual substance of the Final Report of the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls, the get into the whole Steven Crowder Vox Adpocalypse thing. I also take questions from Patreon subscribers in the 49th parahell Discord server! Support the show on Patreon http://www.pa...

This week I explore the very different approaches to climate policy coming from Alberta's UCP and Quebec's CAQ, then Jack Allison of Struggle Session and Jack AM joins me to talk about Joe Biden, Robert Mueller's boring press conference, Nancy Pelosi not doing her job and the abysmal state of american political comedy. Support the show on Patreon: www.patreon.com/49thParahell

This week I take a look at the Australian election results, which wound up playing out rather contrary to popular expectations, and try to figure out what that means (despite knowing very little about australia). Then Nate Bethea of Trashfuture and What a Hell of a Way to Die joins me to break down exactly why a US/Iran war would be an unmitigated disaster, we also discuss other foreign policy iss...

This week, I try to maintain a cool head amid a sudden escalation in military tensions between the US and Iran and then talk a bit about the disturbing, draconian forced-birth laws being put into place in some American states. Then Andrew Law of Boonta Vista joins me to break down the upcoming Australian election and describe some of the absurd political turmoil that's basically become the status...

This week, journalist Ken Klippenstein joins me to talk about the story he uncovered about now-infamous border militia the United Constitutional Patriots, the increasingly state-sanctioned racist violence that Trumpism represents, Joe Biden's presidential prospects, how taking advantage of the Freedom of Information Act (or FOIA) is an essential part of a functioning democracy and more. Support th...

This week, I attempt to emphasize one of the main lessons of Jason Kenney's election as Alberta premiere last week, also the bizarre attempt by Donald Trump and the right to rewrite history on Charlottesville and the history of the alt-right movemement, and an update on my ongoing efforts to destroy Joe Biden's presidential bid. Then Nora Loreto joins me to discuss her talk with Linda Sarsour in W...

This week, writer Talia Lavin joins me to continue our targeted harassment campaign of Dan Crenshaw, discuss the conservative victimization industrial complex, commiserate about our experiences in the eye of the right wing outrage hurricane, go over some of the conspiracy theories that emerged the moment images of the burning Notre Dame cathedral hit social media, and much more. Support the show o...

This week I talk a little about what it's like to be a parent in the pre-apocalypse, also Ilhan Omar gets piled on yet again by an increasingly unhinged & extremist right wing establishment. Then James Wilt joins the show to chat about Justin Trudeau's embarrassing handout to the Weston Family, the crumbling liberal order, our seemingly unavoidable coming conservative dystopian nightmare, what it'...

This week I try to spend as little time as possible talking about Joe Biden, then Bashir Mohamed joins the show to break down the upcoming Alberta election, increasingly radical conservative politics in Canada and beyond, and how the media has been contributing to a toxic & dangerous political climate. Support the show on Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/49thParahell

This week I go over the various unhinged reactions that the long-awaited and predictably disappointing Mueller report inspired, Eleanor Penny tries to explain to me what is happening with Brexit (with mixed results), also what's next for Corbyn and the Labour Party and how the rich are planning to cope with climate change. Then in feedback corner I read some of the comments I received after I ran...

It's been a week since a Donald Trump supporter went on a racist mass-murder spree (again) and the media is making sure he's held to account... for being mean to John McCain. Then journalist Walter Bragman joins the program to talk about the Bernie Sanders/David Sirota non-controversy, media opposition to the Sanders campaign, the anniversary of the Iraq War, desanitizing the human rights disaster...

Jordan Uhl returns to the show this week in the aftermath of the horrendous Mosque shootings in Christchurch New Zealand to talk about online radicalization, right wing conspiracies, Fox News, the Tucker Carlson tapes and what they tell us about the conservative media machine and much more. Support the victims of the Christchurch Mosque shootings here: https://www.launchgood.com/project/support_fo...