Author and podcaster Ben Burgis recently appeared on the Joe Rogan podcast and on the Wright Show with Bob Wright. In this episode of Diet Soap Doug follows up on both appearances. Is Christopher Hitchens overrated as Bob Wright claims? Is Joe Rogan a fascist as many on the left fear? Find out!

Can the socialist left become political? Chris Cutrone and Douglas Lain talk pseudo-politics, war as politics by other means, and why the task of socialism remains the same as they discuss his 2015 lecture "How is Platypus a Pre-Political Project?"Chris's 2015 Lecturehttps://youtu.be/iDiv7MioqJ8

Deep State Kuba describes the history of the conflict between Russia and the West, the role of NATO after the collapse of the Soviet Union, and the reasons behind the invasion of Ukraine. 

Dwayne Roberto Monroe is a cloud architect, strategist and social critic. He describes himself as "fashionably Hegelian" where he is developing a materialist approach to the tech industry and writing about Supercomputers, AIs, the Metaverse, and technoskepticism. In this interview he explains what the cloud is and tells Doug not to believe the hype.

In this special Pop the Left interview, Sublation Media editor and podcaster Ashley Frawley interviews Gord Magill about the Freedom Convoy. Gord has been writing about the movement for Newsweek in essays such as "Elites Are Smearing Truckers Because We're Doing Their Job Representing the People" and "Why Are Canada's Unions Siding With the Government Against Workers?"  In this episode of Pop the Left he explains just what is driving the Trucker's Convoy and explains why he thinks this is a working-class action.

Derick Varn responds to our Matt Christman interview. We get into the roots of the Left's present impasse in the post-War consensus, why both the administrative state of monopoly capital and the concept of the PMC miss their mark, bureaucratic drift on the American Left, and why progressives are so unpopular.

Matt Christman of Chapo Trap House comes on to talk about Occupy anarchism, replaying the 1960s, class politics, and what Leftist media can do after Bernie.

Lavit Maas is a social worker in North Hollywood, CA. She works on Skid Row, helping people who are most at risk receive care in the Los Angeles medical system. In this episode she responds to Tucker Carlson's rant against the homeless that aired on January 18th, 2022. In a segment entitled "We’re watching civilization collapse in real time" Tucker claimed that homelessness was intentionally caused by liberal elites who wanted nothing more than to incentivize drug use and laziness. After a severe facepalm, Lavit responds and disagrees.

Eliot Rosenstock is a psychotherapist working for an app from the UK, the author of The Ego and Its Hyperspace, and the author of Zizek in the Clinic. In this interview, he explains how Freud and Stirner might be combined in clinical practice during the first half and discusses how he's been treated by the new publishing managers at Zer0 Books in the second half for patrons only. 

Richard Wolff is a prominent Marxist economist and activist and in this conversation with Douglas Lain, he discusses vaccine mandates and the growing opposition to them amongst the working class. Richard Wolff is the author of "Capitalism Hits the Fan" and a board member of Democracy at Work.