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It's Joever!  But there's no way to pun 'Kamala Harris' with 'beginning'.  There just isn't.  So we're probably fucked, as usual. In another News Brief episode, hot on the heels of the last one for some unfathomable reason, Daniel and Jack - both mired in mixed feelings - chat about Biden quitting the 2024 Presidential race, Joe 'cheese pizza' Biden himself, the immediate 'annointing' of Vice Pres...

Daniel and Jack chat about recent events... Show Notes: Please consider donating to help us make the show and stay ad-free and independent.  Patrons get exclusive access to at least one full extra episode a month plus all backer-only back-episodes. Daniel's Patreon:  https://www.patreon.com/danielharper/posts Jack's Patreon:  https://www.patreon.com/user?u=4196618&fan_landing=true IDSG Twitter:  h...

We recorded an episode about the 1996 film Independence Day , because we're looking at movies about the American presidency, and how better to do that than to embrace the cheesy human genocide/American exceptionalist pornography than this entry into the Devlin/Emmerich oeuvre? Spoiler alert: this is deeply stupid, but we both kinda like it anyway. Links: Five-Four Pod on Trump vs the United States...

We continue our election year series on movies about the US President, with a chat about Ivan Reitman's Capraesque 1993 political-romantic-comedy-drama-satire(???) Dave , starring Kevin Kline as a lovable goofball Presidential lookalike who ends up actually pretending to be the President, kindasorta accidentally pulling off a (well-meaning) one-man coup d'état, enmeshed in the plots of the evil Wh...

We begin our celebration of America's months-long presidential election with the first in a projected bonus series on movies about the US President. In this edition, we look at 1997's Air Force One . Exclusive for Patreon subscribers. Please consider donating to help us make the show and stay independent.  Patrons get exclusive access to at least one full extra episode a month. Daniel's Patreon: ...

An entire episode of Cantwell news.  And it ain't nice. Content Warnings. Show Notes: Please consider donating to help us make the show and stay ad-free and independent.  Patrons get exclusive access to at least one full extra episode a month plus all backer-only back-episodes. Daniel's Patreon:  https://www.patreon.com/danielharper/posts Jack's Patreon:  https://www.patreon.com/user?u=4196618&fan...

Daniel is joined by friend-of-the-pod and regular guest/collaborator Eiynah Mohammed-Smith (Polite Conversations, Woking Up,  @nicemangos   (2) Eiynah (@nicemangos.bsky.social) — Bluesky ) to talk about Israel's genocide in Gaza, and in particular about some questions that have come up around IDSG's public response to it.  Jack was sadly unable to attend the recording but was fully there in spirit...

Another free public bonus in which Jack steps sideways a little from the usual IDSG focus.  In this episode, Jack hosts a conversation with comrades Twilight O'Hara & Rowan Fortune of Anti-capitalist Resistance about their blistering and important essay A Trans* Guide to Cis Solidarity: Beyond Oppression. This conversation was recorded in January before the show's return from hiatus.   https://ant...

Daniel and Jack discuss Christopher Nolan's 2023 film Oppenheimer.  Exclusive for Patreon subscribers. Please consider donating to help us make the show and stay independent.  Patrons get exclusive access to at least one full extra episode a month. Daniel's Patreon:  https://www.patreon.com/danielharper/posts Jack's Patreon:  https://www.patreon.com/user?u=4196618&fan_landing=true IDSG Twitter:  h...

Nazis are mingling at CPAC, networking and sharing ideas.  We delve into a couple of them for you. Content Warnings Show Notes: Please consider donating to help us make the show and stay ad-free and independent.  Patrons get exclusive access to at least one full extra episode a month plus all backer-only back-episodes. Daniel's Patreon:  https://www.patreon.com/danielharper/posts Jack's Patreon: ...

Our latest X Space with our friend Eiynah Muhammed Smith. ( @nicemangos (2) Eiynah (@nicemangos.bsky.social) — Bluesky ) Discussing the dystopian propaganda around Israel's ongoing genocidal assault on Gaza, from racist Twitter 'hasbara' to IDF TikTok / Insta, to Israeli influencers' skits about Palestinians faking their suffering. Also featuring Dr Caitlin Greene the linguist and tracker of Steve...

A trial balloon for a new format. Relatively brief, topical, news update episodes. We might do more of this going forward. This one is a response to the recent march of masked neo-nazis waving swastika flags through Nashville, Tennessee. We talk about the group involved, Blood Tribe, and their leader, attitudes, and associates. Content Warnings Show Notes: Please consider donating to help us make...

We're back.  It's cool.  What isn't cool is the National Justice Party.  Because it doesn't exist any more.  And it wasn't cool when it did.  It was shit.  And that's why... well, listen to the episode. Content Warnings. Show Notes: Please consider donating to help us make the show and stay ad-free and independent.  Patrons get exclusive access to at least one full extra episode a month plus all b...

Part 2 of our epic Dark Knight chat.  Since we spent the entirety of the last one moaning about the technical shortcomings of Christopher Nolan's 2008 Batman vs the Joker movie, this time we - being who we are - felt the need to spend this episode moaning about the themes and politics and ideology.  And so we did.   Originally published for patrons only Oct 26th, 2021 Daniel's Patreon:  https://ww...

We return!  Backer-only episode in which we chat about our recent lengthy hiatus, our lengthy journey to IDSG, the lengthy rise of fascism, our favourite lengthy YouTube videos, and, by way of contrast, Chris Cantwell's penis. Daniel's Patreon:  https://www.patreon.com/danielharper/posts Jack's Patreon:  https://www.patreon.com/user?u=4196618&fan_landing=true Content Warnings. Please consider dona...

To whet your appetite for our intended imminent return, here's an old bonus episode - the first part of a long conversation Daniel and Jack had back in October 2021 about Christopher Nolan's bloated, pretentious, ramshackle, reactionary Batman vs the Joker movie from 2008. Originally available only for patrons, from October 12th 2021. Brand new bonus episode for patrons coming soon. Daniel's Patre...

Oooooo-wooooo!  Wokeness is Scary! In this little Halloween bonus, Jack joins friend of the pod Eiynah Mohammed-Smith, and Dr Caitilin Green, for a special spooky space over at cursed nazi chan board X.  Recorded October 27th 2023.  Please excuse the usual sound quality issues. We talk about right-wing and IDW-type panics over woke Halloween costumes, concerns about cultural appropriation, etc.  T...

Just Jack, talking about Elon Musk, X/Twitter, the nazis, and where we are now. Content Warnings. This episode is largely based on the work of Marisa Kabas at The Handbasket.  Great stuff.  Go, read, subscribe. https://thehandbasket.substack.com/p/elon-musk-is-an-antisemite https://thehandbasket.substack.com/p/elon-musk-crosses-the-border-to-nazi Also based on the work of Ben Collins: https://www....

Another little bonus to tide you over.  Jack briefly went back to eX-Twitter to hangout in a Space with best-friend-of-the-pod Eiynah and the excellent Dr Caitlin Green to talk about Russell Brand, Lauren Boebert, Danny Masterson, the hypocrisy of those who scream about groomers, patriarchy, etc.  The bit where Caitlin talks about reactions to the Brand allegations among the 'Gender Criticals' is...

In our new Bonus Episode, we talked about In Cold Blood - book, film, films about the book, and the crime itself. * Become a backer of Daniel or Jack to get exclusive access to a new bonus episode. Becoming a patron also brings access to all other bonus episodes.  At least one new Patreon exclusive bonus episode every month. Daniel's Patreon:  https://www.patreon.com/danielharper/posts Jack's Patr...

In this episode, Jack is honoured to be joined by special guest Teddy Wilson of the excellent substack Radical Reports.  (Links below.)  Teddy has been closely studying the US far-right, including the sinister political pressure group that calls itself Moms for Liberty, one of the prime movers in the current reactionary cultural counter-revolution going on in America.  Teddy tells Jack all about i...

While Daniel and Jack continue working towards resumption of IDSG, Jack is once again invited by best-friend-of-the-pod Eiynah ( @nicemangos of the Polite Conversations podcast) to co-host a Twitter space [obligatory Elon Musk joke here] about the new  Barbie movie and the tsunami of reactionary tears it has invoked.  Conversation (with contributions from various guests) ranges over the movie itse...

Our hiatus continues, owing to some real pain-in-the-ass stuff in what is jokingly called 'real life'.  Hopefully we are nearing the time when we can resume making new shows.  In the meantime, here's another old bonus episode to tide you over until our triumphant return.  In this one - originally recorded and released exclusively to Patreon subscribers in October 2021 - we discuss the 2008 movie I...

We're still working on getting back up and running so in the meantime, here's an old bonus episode.  This is our March 2022 discussion of Art Spiegelman's Maus , to go with our public episode from February 2022 about the McMinn County School Board in Tennessee removing the classic graphic novel about the Holocaust from the curriculum .  Sadly, this is relevant again because yet another school boar...

By way of a little compensation for you while you wait (patiently, bless you) for us to get our shit back together (which we are in the process of doing) here is a little bonus, a slightly edited recording of a Twitter space that we did with our friend Eiynah Mohammed-Smith (@NiceMangos) on 12th May last.  We chat about the coronation of Prince Charles (that's his name goddammit!), the revolting s...