Macedonian Content Farmers Podcast

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To celebrate Episode 100 of the Macedonian Content Farmers Podcast, the lads have a new intro! Maybe they’ll get around to a proper website by Ep. 200, but in the meantime, this episode features plenty of crushing morosity with talk of Macedonia’s new milestone of now being 111th in the world (out of 180 countries) in corruption, the recent riots by Macedonia’s ethnic Albanians (and the double sta...

Cvetin and Jason kick off this new episode talking about events of the recent weeks, including the slow roll-out of vaccines (actually, there is no roll-out so far), the arrests of priests and other Orthodox faithful during the Christmas holidays by the Zaev regime, and more wiretaps! The wiretaps they discuss center around Zoran Zaev and Sasho Mijalkov and others and are a tawdry mess. They also...

Cvetin and Jason practice extreme social distancing even though they are in the same city by staying not six feet, or two meters apart, but six kilometers apart as they dive into 2021 and discuss how 2020 has not even ended, because, well, Macedonian Old New Year has not happened yet. They chat about events in the USA, parallels with Macedonia, the increasing crack down on free speech by Big Tech...

Cvetin and Jason get together – this time for real – and discuss 2021 and the New Year ahead, starting with Prime Minister Zoran Zaev’s goal to make Macedonia “wealthy” through the legalization and cultivation of marijuana in 2021. They talk Bulgaria and the upcoming elections there (and Zaev’s fire sale of Macedonian assets to Bulgarian political and business interests), the upcoming census to be...

After a brief hiatus, Cvetin and Jason return to talk about Zoran Zaev’s push to legalize recreational marijuana because, as Zaev tells the AFP news agency, there is big money involved. Of course what Zaev fails to tell AFP is that the Zaev extended family owns many marijuana farms and greenhouses and stands to make a fortune off of legalized marijuana. How will the public react to Zaev’s push to...

Cvetin and Jason sum up the latest events swirling around Bulgaria’s churlish demands of Macedonia and Zoran Zaev’s apparent willingness to give in to those demands. Will this lead to the end of Zoran Zaev and his government or will Zaev manage to sell the proverbial farm (not his cannabis farms though) to Bulgaria including not just Macedonia’s identity, language, history, heritage, culture and m...

Cvetin and Jason have it all for you in this ep of the Macedonian Content Farmers Podcast – hate speech, hypocrisy, and marijuana – and more! – as they break down the latest machinations of Bulgaria toward Macedonia, the double standard exhibited by many in the West who were fine with Greece’s bullying of Macedonia, and the moves by Zoran Zaev and his family, er, government to distract from Covid,...

Cvetin and Jason begin this ep with the good news of the recent win by the Macedonian national football team over Georgia which will bring them to Euro 2020 next June – a major triumph that has allowed Macedonians around the world to celebrate. Of course they also talk about current affairs including Bulgaria’s slow, tired temper-tantrum which has now taken an interesting turn with the introductio...

As the dust settles in the US elections, Cvetin and Jason attempt to parse and suss it all out – what does it mean for Macedonia and the region, let alone the US? The monologue – and title of this ep – give it away. While the Administrative State, or the Managerial State, or the Bureaucratic State, or the Deep State, or whatever State you want to call it will have a great deal of influence on Mace...

Cvetin and Jason talk ABC – Albania, Bulgaria, and the coronavirus – in this episode but in a BAC order, as Bulgaria is engaged in a full court press to deny not only the identity of the Macedonians and their language, but now also – brace yourself – the very name of the country! You might be forgiven for thinking this a bad dream, but some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals will believe...

Cvetin and Jason jump into episode 90 with a running joke (which Jason can’t seem to let go of) poking fun at Nancy Pelosi before they get serious and talk about all things Macedonia by way of a first stop on Kosovo, Albania and Joe Biden and what this means for Macedonia and the region. Of course Bulgaria figures in on their convo with the latest actions by the Bulgarian Government to dictate Mac...

Cvetin and Jason record episode 89 on Sunday, October 11, an important day for Macedonians – the Day of National Uprising when Macedonians celebrate that October 11 in 1941 when Macedonians began fighting back against fascist Bulgarian occupiers. And on this October 11, 2020, the current Bulgarian government continues demanding that the Macedonians debase themselves by denying their own identity i...

Cvetin and Jason discuss the US elections and their possible outcomes and what that could mean for Macedonia, focusing on a possible Biden/Harris presidency, and touch on what a Trump presidency has meant (hint: the Administrative State, i.e. the State Department, doesn’t care who the president is). They touch on energy issues in Macedonia and the region, rule-of-law (or not) in Macedonia, and mor...

Cvetin and Jason get together to discuss the upcoming school year in Macedonia which begins – finally – on October 1, though Cvetin points out there is not much Macedonian history to teach anymore due to the efforts by Zoran Zaev and his government to erase the history of the Macedonians. They highlight this with a list of ever-growing demands – and capitulations by the Zaev government. They also...

After a brief hiatus, Cvetin and Jason are back in the proverbial saddle to discuss ongoing and current events in Macedonia and what they mean for Macedonia. They cover the coronavirus, the attempt to get the school year going (hint: difficult), the ongoing scandals plaguing the government of Zoran Zaev (many) and his government’s likely acquiescence to Bulgaria on the issue of Goce Delcev and muc...

With the “new” government installed in Macedonia, Cvetin and Jason break it all down for you with commentary on who is in and who is out (hint: same old same old but in new positions), the flattering classes of ambassadors fawning over Zaev and his government on the Twitters, and thoughts on Macedonia’s lost school year. And they happily note that Ali Ahmeti goes to the Hague on September 1! All o...

Cvetin and Jason discuss government formation in Macedonia with a list of who is in and who is out, even among the “new” government political parties (learn who got the “Ministry of Reading Newspapers!). But they start with the coronavirus which is still ravaging Macedonia and note that Macedonian children will, by the end of this year, have lost an entire year of schooling due to government incom...

As the formation of a new Macedonian government stumbles on, Cvetin and Jason get together to discuss the latest rumors which, no surprise, center on Zoran Zaev giving away what is left of Macedonia. They also suss out the latest scandals facing the Zaev Government including the government shutdown of Eurostandard Bank, the opening – or not – of schools during the continuing coronavirus and rememb...

After an Ilinden break, Cvetin and Jason are back to try to suss out the current machinations going on in Macedonia with respect to government formation. They make several guesses at what could be, Jason goes on at least two rants of sorts, and in this episode, there is a Farmer's Pick to try to lift everyone's spirits after all of their negative rank punditry. Music by: - Mizar (Pocesna strelba -...

Cvetin and Jason record Episode 81 on the 57th anniversary of the devastating earthquake in Skopje while looking forward to the August 2 anniversary of the Ilinden Uprising and what it means for Macedonians as they wait for a new government to be formed. They also talk about little pop star Dua Lipa and her recent tweets and those who constantly play the victimization card, and they even manage to...

Cvetin and Jason analyze the July 15 parliamentary elections in Macedonia, parsing out the results and possible coalitions and outcomes, and what that means for Macedonia and the Macedonians. While veering down Crushing Morosity Street they do attempt to add a little bit of encouragement into the equation and do some deeper dives into philosophical thought on challenges to identity and democracy i...

It's election day in Macedonia. Wednesday, July 15, is the day for general voting in the parliamentary elections 2020 in Macedonia. Cvetin and Jason cover all aspects of what to expect, polling, possible outcomes and of course the continuing scandals leading up to and beyond election day. Music by: - Mizar (Pocesna strelba - Last salute) With gratitude to Mark Steyn, for giving us the idea for the...

With less than a week to go before July 15 parliamentary elections in Macedonia, Cvetin and Jason vow to talk about nothing but elections, but get sidetracked into discussions about politics, the scandals facing Zoran Zaev and his government, the mob in America and elsewhere, the coming end of the so-called "colorful revolutionaries" in Macedonia, and more! Music by: - Mizar (Pocesna strelba - Las...

With so much going on in Macedonia these days, Cvetin and Jason decided to narrow it down to just three items in this podcast – the elections on July 15, the many scandals facing Zoran Zaev and his “North Macedonian Social Democratic League” party, and the coronavirus. But of course they had to add commentary about the so-called “colorful revolutionaries,” events in neighboring Kosovo, and even el...