Mechanical Freak

We’re back with Justin Roll to continue our discussion of the Truman era and the start of the Cold War. If you haven’t already, make sure to go back and listen to Episode 15.

Justin Roll from the History Sucks podcast joins the gang to talk Harry Truman, WWII, the 1944 DNC, and the start of the Cold War.

The boys from Texas are back to give you scorching hot music takes about bands from thirty years ago. Listen to the episode in its entirety on Patreon https://www.patreon.com/posts/62439389

Munya and Greg tackle foreign affairs and chart a course for the US empire out of this dangerous stalemate with Russia. Peace with honor! More importantly they're back on the Seattle restaurant tyrant beat and try to suss out the future of crime and punishment here in the city of the future.

Munya and Brian talk about Chapter 10 of The End of the Myth and the dreaded 7-letter word, “fascism.” They discuss the material and psychological forces at play during the 1930s as well as the role of liberalism in midwifing fascism into being in Europe. They bring Rajani Palme Dutt and his 1934 book Fascism and Social Revolution into the discussion to provide some on the ground analysis of Europ...

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We’re joined by a very special guest! Sydney Durkin hops aboard the proverbial boat with Greg and Munya to talk about their experience unionizing the Broadway & Denny Starbucks coffee shop, and the future of the labor movement with Starbucks Workers United.

Munya and Brian discuss the class war that raged in the United States between World War I and World War II. They answer: Why was the American ruling class so obsessed with Mussolini? And, what is the best sales strategy for selling grenade launchers to Firestone? All this and more!

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We celebrate our 100th episode by joining the new economy and getting into the crypto game. But as we join the new economy, there is something that we forgot… The old economy was still there, pilfering the paychecks of star athletes and sitting, Smaug-like, on its wealth as our new crypto landlords. Welcome to the new world (same as the old world)!

Munya & Brian are joined by historian and friend of the show Ryan Archibald to discuss the politics of travel. A free-ranging discussion of how the US security state came to see international travel and movement as a danger to be closely surveilled and policed.

Exclusive! Munya and Greg are joined this week by Seattle Public Schools Teacher and teachers union rep Tony D'Amico to talk about teaching in the time of corona, the failures of planning for the omicron wave, and the organizing teachers are doing right now to help themselves, their students, and their communities.

Why it's been months since we talked about SPD and their multiplicity of misdeeds in 2020! Last weeks release of an OPA report confirming that they did some radio theater improv design to sow fear and chaos in Seattle is a perfect opportunity to dive back in. Oh and Kent can't even fire their gossiping obergruppenführer police chief.

Brian reads an excerpt from Edwin Black’s War Against the Weak to Munya about a massive ethnic cleansing plan drawn up by the state of Connecticut in 1938. This excerpt shows that the United States had more than a minor dalliance with Nazi-style eugenics.

Munya & Brian conclude their four-part discussion of the Progressive Era by taking a look at the evolution of American immigration laws and violence & racism on the US-Mexico border. For this ep we will be talking about themes from chapter 9 in End of the Myth.

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Welcome freaks… to a brave new year!!! Greg, Munya, and Cassidy ring in 2022 with some hot sexy news everyone is buzzing about… the… inauguration of Seattle and NYC’s mayors! We also reflect and judge the predictions we made last year, while dishing out new ones. Cassidy provides freak exclusive insight of what’s In, and what’s way Out (this is the only official “In/Out” list… other ones are major...

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Munya, celebrity couldn't have happened to a nicer guy! You really belong with the cultural elite in NYC, not here in this winter terrorland with the rest of us. But thanks for slumming it to talk about the latest failures of our federal government in the face of mass death, and the latest dunk over the heads of our local government by outgoing hero Jenny Durkan. Please remember us when you are a...

A special stocking stuffer for our loyal listeners, Brian regales Munya with the history of the war on Christmas. Happy holidays!

Live from Leavenworth aka CHRISTMASTOWN USA! Starbucks workers are unionizing, we're all going to get covid, and there is a war being waged on the Christmas battlefield between hotdog vendors and the very cool, unique (quirky even), worshipers of a Germanic daemon.

In part one of this two parter, we discuss the early labor movement and how the implementation of Jim Crow was used to enact a counter-revolution against Reconstruction. We also answer the question, “How did American towns and suburbs get to be so white?”

Greg, Cassidy, and Brian get together to discuss the victory for Starbucks workers in Buffalo and try to untangle exactly what happened in the vote that is being contested. Then, Brian is forced to spit out his Raisin Bran as he learns about how workers are treated at Kelloggs.

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Kshama Sawant has won for the 4th time in 8 years as an open Marxist and a Trotskyist. We discuss Kshama Sawant and Socialist’s Alternative 4th consecutive victory on the council, how working people beat back all the worst developers and landlords (again), and more from Kshama's hot fire victory speech!