49th Parahell

This week I become depressed after watching Donald Trump's rambling speech about his pretend national emergency, then Dan Boeckner of Wolf Parade joins me to talk about life in Nanaimo, his songwriting approach, Ilhan Omar's remarkable 48 hrs, and why no one in this country seems to care that we're financing far right Ukranian nationalists.

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This week Alberta United Conservative Party leader Jason Kenney was extremely triggered by a piece in Vice that explored the anti-semitic origins of his attacks on environmentalist groups, so Kate Jacobson of the Alberta Advantage podcast (quoted in the piece and later publicly attacked by Kenney) joined me to talk about it, as well as how antisemitism is inseparable from capitalism, why Justin Trudeau only cares about corporate crimes when the US State Department tells him to, why we're helping start Vietnam II in Latin America for some reason and of course, we also complain about the NDP.

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This week I talk about the Liberal government's attacks on Niki Ashton and the NDP for their opposition to the Venezuelan coup, also the hilariously backfired Bernie Sanders opposition research that was released on twitter. Then visual artist/art director and writer/creator of Vertigo Comics' HIGH LEVEL joins the show to talk about his new book, climate change, hopeless presidential candidate Howard Schultz and his incredible lack of self-awareness, why billionaire elites are so scandalized by mild social democracy, and much more.

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This week I go over the extremely depressing media reaction to the Covington High MAGA teen's carefully curated PR push, then UBC Anthropology PhD student Hilary Agro joins the show to talk about the burgeoning Venezuelan coup, Canada's role in legitimizing it, the profound lack of self-awareness on display at Davos, our post legalization landscape, the future of drug policy and much more.

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This week, I complain about the weather and then briefly talk about the "crisis" on the southern US border. Then three-time returning guest Michael Bueckert joins me to discuss Doug Ford's latest assault on Ontario's education system, the disappointing Jagmeet Singh era, what Trudeau has in common with Jair Bolsonaro, our seemingly unavoidable conservative nightmare future and much more.

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It's the first episode of 2019 and I have to re-remember how to podcast. Then Luke Savage returns to the show to talk about the ongoing media freakout over AOC, Bernie, Warren, Beto and Biden's 2020 chances, the gap between rhetoric and action, Trudeau's empty promises to indigenous communities and whether the CPC's embrace of pure malevolence & spite is a new phenomenon or recency bias.

We might be exploring the hellish nightmare of modern reality together, but we've still managed to have a few laughs over the course of 24 episodes. Enjoy this compilation of some of the best segments of 2018 (plus an extra special bonus featuring twitter's @dogboner) and we'll be back in 2019.

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This week I describe my minor feud with the head of Center for American Progress, Neera Tanden, and explain why CAP's ongoing partnership with the truly vile arch conservatives at the American Enterprise Institute somewhat contradicts their claim that they stand for progressive values. Then Kelly Wiell of the Daily Beast joins the show to talk about Pewdiepie's (whom I also feuded with this week) latest controversy, the reactionary Youtube algorithm, Tucker Carlson and much more.

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This week I weigh in on Beto 2020 and the opening salvo of the democratic primary, then Vanity Fair's Maya Kossof joins the show to talk about the recent Mueller investigation developments, Canada imprisoning Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou, activists fighting back against Amazon's HQ2, the farcical Google conservative censorship hearings, Facebook's recent trials & tribulations, Jack Dorsey's embarrassingly self-serving and tone deaf Myanmar retreat, the Trump administration's regressive climate policy and more.

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This week I go over the recent developments in the Mueller investigation and explain why I still find it unlikely that we'll ever see Donald Trump or any other wealthy politically connected elite in america actually face any consequences for their criminal behavior. Then author and cartoonist Eli Valley joins the show to talk about George H.W. Bush, Marc Lamont Hill, Laura Loomer, antisemitism, Israel and much more.