Ben, Kim and Tim talk Mormon teen drug law workarounds, vibes, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott being a bastard, depressing weather, if public education is worth saving (Yes?), Melon Usk buying Twitter, why the gender binary is terrible, and much more!

Ben, Kim and Tim talk about The Slap (not sorry), frenemies of the show, trolling anti-communist labor historian Erik Loomis, bad Star Trek shows, scaring bosses, vibes, and much more!

This week's recs:

-Support your local antifa homies (in DC: Frederick Against Fascism)

-Star Trek: Enterprise's best episodes: "Demons" and "Terra Prime"

-Local Hero (1983), directed by Bill Forsyth

Ben, Kim and Tim talk what is to be done (lol) about the Russian invasion of Ukraine, convoy fascists, not having a take on everything, Lars von Trier's classic Melancholia, Twitter reactionary ish, media literacy and propaganda, and much more!

(Note: the audio issues with this episode are because Audacity might be spyware now. Screw you, Audacity.)

BONUS EPISODE! Actually, Tim forgot to put this up. We talk about Don't Look Up and whether or not it sucks, plus much more!

Ben, Kim and Tim talk ethnostates, when Kim was fancy in France once, astrology biz, why the SCOTUS is made up bullshit, why Erik Loomis sucks, and above all why there's no left movement despite feeling like we had one in hopeful moments (anti Iraq War, Occupy, BLM), plus much more!

Recommendations from this ep:

Bring the War Home by Kathleen Belew (Kim)

The Unconsoled by Kazuo Ishiguro (Tim)

A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers (Ben)

Ben, Kim and Tim talk about landback, Dune, wage theft, friendship as organizing praxis, the alienation of our labor, Mr. Bean's gender, terrible Dune jokes, class struggle elections, doing stuff together as organizing praxis, Dune, and much more!

Ben, Kim and Tim are joined by Kayte (@kayteterry) to talk family abolition and why we need it for our liberation, Kyrsten Sinema as the Delta variant of terrible people, housing biz, political aesthetics, the Buttigiegification of queerness, and much more!

Ben, Kim and Tim talk Good Bookchin vs. Bad Bookchin, fascists in DC again, Randy Newman, why most Bens suck, the Rainbow Coalition and not making space for racists, stuff we realized as kids about capitalism, and much more!

Ben, Kim, and Tim talk treaty rights, why we need race treason not white guilt, distrusting spokespeople, self-help as an escape from reality, being explicit about our emotions, fascism in 2021, and much more!

Ben, Kim and Tim are joined by Emerson to talk about Green Bloc, a formation in YDSA fighting for survival and socialism amidst the escalating climate crisis. We also talk about diplomacy in organizing, how people are just big, dumb cats, beating the park police, why J.D. Vance is a piece of crap, American Movie, local delis, and much more.