In this episode Galen and Budd talk about the difficulties in the Israeli/Palestinian relations, starting World War III, answering a list of panel questions about teaching online (honestly), and wondering whether being against child labor is racist and xenophobic.

Galen tells us what happened in Bolivia (sorry Elon), Budd talks about his fantasy of saving Hunter Biden, and Glen Greenwald is independently wealthy and doesn't need to take shit from the Intercept.

politics/current events episode

In this episode, Galen and Budd discuss the left's opposition to Joe Rogan (from the perspective of Glen Greenwald) and the difference between political leftism and cultural leftism. Then we - bravely - dive back into Karl Marx's Capital Vol. 1, to discuss the evolution of forms of value, universal equivalent value, and money form value, and commodity fetishism. 

After we catch up with some current events (Breonna Taylor's murderers walking free, Ruth Bader Ginsberg's untimely death - RIP RBG, the first Presidential Debate between Biden and Trump, and whether or not Trump has coronavirus), we dive head first into Karl Marx's Capital Vol. 1, Chapter 1. We discuss the two-fold commodity (use value and exchange value) and the labor embodied in commodities.

Mauro Caraccioli, Assistant Professor at Virgina Tech, joins us for a discussion of Megan Erickson's Class War: The Privatization of Childhood. The book is part of the Jacobin Series published by Verso books.

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This episode is pretty philosophy free. Give us this break while we prepare for our next big endeavor, Karl Marx's Das Kapital. In this episode we make fun of Rand Paul feeling endangered by protesters who are protesting people who were actually harmed, discuss Glen Greenwald's latest episode about the rise in suicide rates (and general death) among young people and poor people. How has life expectancy gone down? 

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Rachel Maddow grills Rand Paul about the Civil Rights Act: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0RnnrdKGlg

Full Video of Rand Paul surrounded by protesters asking him to say Breonna Taylor's name: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r73EJmcAsBk&t=668s

Glen Greenwald talking about the decline in life expectancy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=77zF_b3blpU

Mauro Caraccioli, Assistant Professor at Virgina Tech, joins us for a discussion of Megan Erickson's Class War: The Privatization of Childhood. The book is part of the Jacobin Series published by Verso books. This discussion centers what it means to grow up and educate young people in today's America, with its overlapping layers of racism, income inequality, and systemic injustice, and how that shapes our future. Who will be the managers and who will be the workers?

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In this episode we talk about Alex S. Vitale's The End of Policing and augment that with excerpts from Police: A Field Guide by David Correia and Tyler Wall. Continuing our research into policing, Galen and Budd take a look at immigration practices with DHS, ICE, and Border Patrol, and political policing especially as it relates to current protests.

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The End of Policing

In this episode we talk about Alex S. Vitale's The End of Policing and augment that with excerpts from Police: A Field Guide by David Correia and Tyler Wall. Continuing our research into policing, Galen and Budd discuss the War on Drugs, which has devastated communities and lead to the largest growth in Police in America, and gangs. 

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The End of Policing