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On this Pride Never Die, we speak to strength coach Stevie Snatches about training, resting, and self-care.  We can't continue to produce important episodes like this one without your solidarity. There is no Southpaw network without your financial support. In return, not only do you help produce our shows but you also get access to more great content. It's mutual aid. Find our Patreon, swag,...

On this Fight Study, we break down UFC Fight Night: Kattar vs. Chikadze, then preview some of the fights from UFC 270.  We can't continue to produce important episodes like this one without your solidarity. There is no Southpaw network without your financial support. In return, not only do you help produce our shows but you also get access to more great content. It's mutual aid. Find our Patr...

We're discussing Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, "A Man Alone." You can watch it first and then listen to this episode, you can listen then watch, or you can skip it altogether and just listen to us give you the play-by-play of each episode along with color commentary (from a Third-World communist lens). New episodes drop every Tuesday. Hosted by Angel and Sam. (Note: We are going by the Netflix order...

On this Fight Study, we speak to martial artist, writer, activist, and former academic Madelyn Mae about unprocessed childhood trauma and protests, the relationship between edginess-angst-harm, being a product of your environment, evolving your politics as you learn and grow, how to promote healing in radical spaces, martial arts and reclaiming the body, training muay Thai, and the exploitation of...

We're discussing the very first episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, "Emissary." You can watch it first and then listen to this episode, you can listen then watch, or you can skip watching it altogether and just listen to us give you the play-by-play of each episode along with color commentary. New episodes drop every Tuesday. Hosted by Angel and Sam. (Note: We are going by the Netflix order of...

Exactly 29 years after the first airing of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine , we're announcing a new series: Southpaw: Deep Space Nine . Rather than the standard format of an expert teaching a subject to their passive co-host/pet rock, we're modeling this show from sports and pro wrestling play-by-play and color commentary—if the commentators were Third-World commies. Hosted by Angel and Sam.  "How...

I wrote an article for The Real News Network ( https://therealnews.com/squid-game-and-the-long-shadow-of-american-empire) , and I am presenting it to you here.  We can't continue to produce important episodes like this one without your solidarity. There is no Southpaw network without your financial support. In return, not only do you help produce our shows but you also get access to more grea...

For this final episode of the Financial Education series, we're tackling cryptocurrencies, NFTs, meme stocks, pump & dumps, and what they can teach us about imperialism and the dangers of false comparisons. Just as you can't compare flus to COVID-19 because of the difference in severity and scale, the actions of the US have a different severity and scale than the countries they criticize—just...

This is a special presentation of Sam's radio interview on WXRW "Drive Time from Riverwest." Sam talks about how pro wrestling and MMA changed fight choreography, building a media network when everyone you know is shy, toxic masculinity in martial arts, and how financial education and MMA analysis are both about understanding domination.  We can't continue to produce important episodes like t...

Fight Study is back with a new format and a new co-host, Jason Sargus. First, we go over all the boxing and MMA results from this past weekend. Then we break down Charles Oliveira (c) vs. Dustin Poirier, Amanda Nunes (c) vs. Juliana Pena, Kai Kara-France vs. Cody Garbrandt, Sean O'Malley vs. Raulian Paiva, Dominick Cruz vs. Pedro Munhoz, and Erin Blanchfield vs. Miranda Maverick.  We can't co...

In this episode, we talk about racialized poverty, why America should be the last country to criticize other systems, the punitive-racist nature of the credit system, how medical debt is even a thing, debt-police-prisons as forms of social control and enslavement, history of property in the US and why only one group has a history of inheritance, the cartel of the US and its allied countries, how t...

On episode 6 of Pride Never Die, JJ discusses his experiences as a Black, queer fighter in muay Thai and professional combat sports, class privilege in martial arts, the exploitation of Thailand by Western muay Thai practitioners, muay Thai's client relationship with MMA and BJJ, race and gender in the UFC, and also Charles Oliveira (c) vs. Dustin Poirier.  We can't continue to produce import...

Coach Jason returns to talk Devin Haney (c) vs. Joseph Diaz, Gervonta Davis (c) vs. Isaac Cruz, Sergio Pettis (c) vs. Kyoji Horiguchi, Rob Font vs. José Aldo, Rafael Fiziev vs. Brad Riddell, and Charles Oliveira (c) vs. Dustin Poirier.  Veteran to Champion: Charles Oliveira: https://www.patreon.com/posts/59402856   We can't continue to produce important episodes like this one without you...

In this episode, we talk about the history of stock investing and how it relates to colonialism, how the US military and the financial market use the same mechanisms, surviving debt, how the rich use retirement accounts to hide money, making sense of interest rates, and understanding tax consequences. This took months to produce, so if you like what you heard, support the show and share this serie...

Fight Study 110: Paul is back to give us a massive career breakdown for Charles 'Do Bronx' Oliveira!  We can't continue to produce important episodes like this one without your solidarity. There is no Southpaw network without your financial support. In return, not only do you help produce our shows but you also get access to more great content. It's mutual aid. Find our Patreon, swag, and oth...

In this episode, we demystify personal finance and explore the moral complexities of investing, finding safety within an insecure rigged system, predatory finance as a feature of capitalism, understanding financial trauma, savings vs. debt, financial realities for fighters, and fraudulent freedom under capitalism. This took months to produce, so if you like what you heard, support the show and sha...

This is volume two of a six-volume series on liberatory financial education. In this episode, we connect the dots between personal finance and imperialism, domestic financial policies and foreign policies, transphobic MMA fans and American exceptionalism, predatory financial products and capitalist hope, and why hegemony is the only way to understand the United States. This took months to produce,...

This is volume one of a six-volume series on liberatory financial education. We answer questions about personal finance from a bottom-up, global monetary perspective and connect the dots between personal poverty and impoverished countries. This took months to produce, so if you like what you heard, support the show and share this series with friends. If you want the transcript, it's on Patreon . I...

On episode 5 of Pride Never Die, Kasey Petruk of Prairie Community Defense joins Carrion to discuss training and self-defense for the LGBTQ+ community.  We can't continue to produce important episodes like this one without your solidarity. There is no Southpaw network without your financial support. In return, not only do you help produce our shows but you also get access to more great conten...

Fight Study 109: We break down 'Canelo' Alvarez vs. Caleb Plant, then wrestling coach Zach Goldrosen (@goldjaboytellem) and pro-Thaiboxer Ron King III (@grapplerronny) join the show to talk about UFC 268.  We can't continue to produce important episodes like this one without your solidarity. There is no Southpaw network without your financial support. In return, not only do you help produce o...

Welcome to the first episode of our new pro wrestling and labor show made in collaboration with Southpaw! In this episode's general discussion, we talk AEW (Danielson vs Suzuki, women's division booking, Hangman's return, title tournament bracketology, etc.), Pro Wrestling Noah, the Zeusification of Osaka Pro Wrestling, and Chris Ridgeway vs Ethan Allen (2020 match, 2021 match). We also have a lon...

Join queer wrestling fans AJ (they/she) and Envi (they/them) as they discuss wrestling news and politics on Working Stiff Radio.  Find Working Stiff Radio on Twitter: @WorkingStiffFM or at: workingstiffradio@gmail.com  Find their bonus content on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/WorkingStiff   Find ways to support the Southpaw Network at: https://www.southpawpod.com   Album Art...

Debunking capitalist efficiency and competition. Find the transcript on Patreon .  Books to read:  Bullsh*t Jobs: A Theory by David Graeber  The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism by Max Weber  The Theory of the Leisure Class by Thorstein Veblen  The Money Cult: Capitalism, Christianity, and the Unmaking of the American Dream by Chris Lehmann  The New...

Fight Study 108: Boxing writer, commentator, and analyst Corey Erdman joins us to discuss the Tyson Fury vs. Deontay Wilder trilogy as well as the heavyweight boxing landscape.  We can't continue to produce important episodes like this one without your solidarity. There is no Southpaw network without your financial support. In return, not only do you help produce our shows but you also get ac...

A brief primer on Red Summer(s).  We can't continue to produce important episodes like this one without your solidarity. There is no Southpaw network without your financial support. In return, not only do you help produce our shows but you also get access to more great content. It's mutual aid. Find our Patreon, swag, and other ways to support us at: https://www.southpawpod.com   You can...