A Thousand Natural Shocks With Gabe S. Dunn

Welcome back! Former CNN reporter, now independent journalist Nick Valencia joins the show to kiki with Gabe about the ups and downs of working for mainstream media and why he's chosen to go independent for his coverage of immigration in this horrid time.  Check out Rosetta Stone and use my code TODAY for a great deal:  https://www.rosettastone.com Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com...

Gabe discusses how ableism and toxic masculinity led to his fear of quitting a job because of his new medical diagnosis. Join Gabe’s Substack at athousandnaturalshocks.substack.com Check out Rosetta Stone and use my code TODAY for a great deal:  https://www.rosettastone.com This has been a Noted Bisexual and Diamond MPrint Productions Produced by Melisa D. Monts Advertising Inquiries: https://redc...

Professor and author Celina Su joins the pod to talk about her new position on NYC mayor Zohran Mamdani’s transition team and about the outrageous misuse of budgets and what we can do about making change. Join Gabe’s Substack at athousandnaturalshocks.substack.com Check out Rosetta Stone and use my code TODAY for a great deal:  https://www.rosettastone.com This has been a Noted Bisexual and Diamon...

Each week, Gabe will sum up some of the work he’s been doing or researching anti-fascist activism on the ground and keep you updated on the latest developments.  This week, Gabe reflects on reactions to our 50501 Movement episode and on his own confusion around what needs to happen. Join Gabe’s Substack at  athousandnaturalshocks.substack.com Check out Rosetta Stone and use my code TODAY for a gre...

To permit protests or not to permit protests? (The answer is obvious.) Hunter Dunn (no relation), of the 50501 Movement's press officers, joins the show to talk about youth in politics, queerness in the Bible and how we use religion to convince across party lines, and bringing liberals and Dems into leftist organizing. Hunter and Gabe reminisce about some of the more bizarre aspects of LA gove...

Each week, Gabe will sum up some of the work he’s been doing or researching anti-fascist activism on the ground and keep you updated on the latest developments. This week, Gabe talks about what happened at a House Oversight Committee meeting he attended and reflects on what his grandmother told him about surviving the Holocaust. https://www.instagram.com/epistemiccrisis? Join Gabe’s Substack at at...

Historian Prit Buttar, author of “Into The Reich joins the show to draw parallels between the specifics of World War II and our lives now. It’s much more complex than even your host could believe. Check this out if you want not only a soothing British voice but also a history lesson between two obsessives. Join Gabe’s Substack at athousandnaturalshocks.substack.com This has been a Noted Bisexual a...

Original Air Date: May 6, 2025  Gabe is thrilled to speak to Kathryn Kellogg, a spokesperson for the zero waste movement, about overconsumption’s impact on the environment and on ourselves. Join Gabe’s Substack at athousandnaturalshocks.substack.com This has been a Noted Bisexual and Diamond MPrint Productions Produced by Melisa D. Monts Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy...

Each week, Gabe will sum up some of the work he’s been doing or researching anti-fascist activism on the ground and keep you updated on the latest developments. This week, he notes that the State Department has changed the sex marker on the passport website about 4 times in the last few weeks. Join Gabe’s Substack at athousandnaturalshocks.substack.com This has been a Noted Bisexual and Diamond MP...

Activist Catie Laffoon joins the show to talk about the largest ICE detention center in California, which has garnered almost no media attention, and the example of California City becoming owned by ICE. Catie and Gabe traveled two hours outside LA to what they believe to be a future "slave city" to find scandals, horrors, insanity, and corruption. They discuss their theories and research...

The world wasn't always organized through capitalism, and viewing that economic system through only a Eurocentric lens won't provide the entire picture. Harvard professor and historian Sven Beckert joins the show to talk about how capitalism started and how we got here. Plus, gender and racial roles in capitalism and why we view the stock market as a mystical god. Join Gabe’s Substack at a...

Ever make a doctor's appointment to trick them into learning about trans people? Uncloak's Kalvin Byrd joins the podcast to talk about his work testing doctors on how they treat trans male reproductive healthcare and connecting them to other safe, vetted doctors and trans patients, using himself as a guinea pig to be the first trans man a doctor has ever seen, and his commitment to healthc...

Candidate for Los Angeles City Attorney Aida Ashouri joins the show to talk about how much power the city attorney has. It is A LOT. Like maybe more than the mayor. It’s crazy. Aida talks about what she would do in that pivotal position.  Join Gabe’s Substack at athousandnaturalshocks.substack.com This has been a Noted Bisexual and Diamond MPrint Productions Produced by Melisa D. Monts Advertising...

Taylor Smith, one of Gabe’s fellow activists on the ground in LA, calls in to the show from the federal building as we all await the verdict of our friend on trial against DHS. They discuss the ways we can use humor and memes to fight fascism (the Portland frog) how trolling the officers creates humanity and dispels fear and power, and ways to show up that confuse and disarm. Links for our resourc...

tw: suicide As part of a series of interviews with Gabe’s fellow anti-ICE activists on the ground in LA, we’re joined by Eddy. Mp4, one of the first people that Gabe met downtown this summer. Gabe first saw Eddy in a green Luigi cap telling National Guardsman that hurting American citizens would give them lasting mental health issues. That compassion led Gabe to reach out and the rest is history....

Gabe gives a short personal update on the anti-ICE movement he's been involved with and shares what's been going on in court, in the protests on the ground, and in the media. He's a bit mad at you all. Join Gabe’s Substack at athousandnaturalshocks.substack.com This has been a Noted Bisexual and Diamond MPrint Productions Produced by Melisa D. Monts Advertising Inquiries: https://redci...

Fuck ICE. Fuck CoreCivic and Geo Group. Fuck Trump. Anyway, in the actual episode, Gabe is joined by career meteorologist Alan Gerard, author of the awesome Substack Balanced Weather (one of Gabe's new hyperfixations). We get into the weeds on how the Trump administration's war on weather is insane and probably going to get us all killed. (Gabe's words.) Then, privatizing the weather,...

Hi guys! Rose's dog and mom both make noise during this interview, so that's what that is. (Classic mom to start doing the most the minute you need quiet lol) Will money matter as the world ends? Author Rose Han joins the show to talk about the golden handcuffs of a "good" job, hiding your real financial situation from your richer friends, and what skills have become important as w...

We are positively fracked! Zach Williams, Associate Director of the Environment & Health program at Physicians for Social Responsibility, joins the show to talk about specific legislation around climate change, the optics of who can make a difference, and how climate change intersects with everything from refugees to LGBTQ youth. Plus, what does the future of our weather-torn world look like?...

How do we live like the world is dying? (Because it is.) Margaret Killjoy, writer, podcast host and person Gabe admires, joins the show for a healing and detailed conversation to educate baby anarchist Gabe and his audience. We talk about how everyone in Gabe’s life thinks he’s lost his mind about politics, Margaret’s extensive knowledge of socialism, communism and labor history and tactics, and t...

Happy Labor Day weekend! Gabe’s thrilled to welcome reporter Hamilton Nolan to the show to talk about the intersection of basically every political issue with labor organizing. It’s not just about unionizing your office, it’s about how to work with unions to create the change we’re looking for.  Join Gabe’s Substack at athousandnaturalshocks.substack.com This has been a Noted Bisexual and Diamond...

One of the architects of the baby bonds idea, economist William “Sandy” Darity Jr, joins the show again to discuss Trump’s twisted take on them. What are MAGA bonds and why are they not the answer to wealth inequity? Sandy and Gabe try to imagine a better world for all families and children. Join Gabe’s Substack at athousandnaturalshocks.substack.com This has been a Noted Bisexual and Diamond MPri...

Writer, former Columbia student and Australian citizen Alistair Kitchen joins the show to share every step of what happened to him when he was disappeared by a cruel and taunting border patrol. He was told it was because he covered the Free Palestine encampment at Columbia University and what happened next was scary and cruel. Gabe and Alistair talk about why people are okay with fascism until it’...

Welcome to the rebrand of Bad With Money called A Thousand Natural Shocks. In this episode, Maria Melchor of FirstGenLiving, who came to the US from Mexico when she was nine years old, talks about protecting your assets before deportation. After taking time off to mentally regroup, Maria returned to the financial space to help detained and deported people and their families learn their rights when...

On August 12 - so next week - the show officially relaunches on this same feed as A Thousand Natural Shocks: A Bad With Money podcast. In the last decade of doing this show, I went from “just asking questions” to socialist to even more radical in the last few years. I want the show to follow suit and be more relevant to the current moment for the middle and working classes. In our final Bad With M...