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  • Episode 48: What We Talk About When We Talk About Conservatism ft. Micah Meadowcroft

    Emmet sits down with Micah Meadowcroft, an editor at The American Conservative, to talk about some of his recent writing, a view of the right from the right, what conservatism should mean, ending America's imperial posture, and much more.

    "We Are Going to Win" by Micah Meadowcroft

    "Roman Rhetoric And Florentine Politics: A Reply To Yarvin" by Micah Meadowcroft

    The piece of Emmet's mentioned:

    "Nuclear Power Plants: Our Industrial Cathedrals" by Emmet Penney

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    Closing Song: "Hips Swingin" by Naked Raygun

    57 min
  • [teaser] American Canon: Flannery O'Connor's "A Good Man is Hard to Find"

    John and I are back with another canon ep by request. This one's about one of our favorite short stories. We talk through the story, then ruminate on the connections between O'Connor and McCarthy, and then close with a meditation on life in flyover country.

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    You can read it here: https://repositorio.ufsc.br/bitstream/handle/123456789/160332/A%20good%20man%20is%20hard%20to%20find%20-%20Flannery%20O%27Connor.pdf

    Bibliography: https://exhaust.fireside.fm/articles/p10
    Closing Song: https://foundfootageokc.bandcamp.com/album/as-far-as-far

    5 min
  • Episode 47: How Did We Get Here? Ft. Sterling Bartlett

    Emmet sits down with comic book artist Sterling Bartlett to talk about his comics "How Did We Get Here?" and "Kali, Yuga, Eschaton." They talk about how recycling is a scam, the late-period Matisse to moralizing infographic pipeline, the death of boredom, the age of the filthy casual., and more!

    Check out Sterling's work: https://www.sterlingbartlett.com/

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    Closing Song: "A Three Year Old Could Do That" by the U-Men.

    58 min
  • [teaser] After Virtue IV: The Tradition of Virtue

    In our second to last installment on After Virtue we look at Aristotle's impact and the origins and extension of virtue ethics from Homer to the Middle Ages. This one was a fun deep dive and very in our wheelhouses in different ways.

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    5 min
  • Episode 45: I Make An Honest Living!: Pain & Gain, Wolf of Wall Street, and the Financial Crash

    Josh Bregman comes back on the pod to talk with Emmet about two movies that came out in the same summer that sought to capture post-crash America: Pain & Gain and Wolf of Wall Street. They talk about what a shitty director Michael Bay is, analyze the main characters of each movie, and try to figure out just why it was so hard to narrativize a financial crash that almost ended the world economy over night.

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    Closing Song: "Look At What You Did, You Little Jerk," by MANS.

    1 hr 18 min
  • Episode 44: Astroturfing the Thunderdome ft. Fox Green

    Emmet sits down with Fox Green of Space Commune to talk about how his town is being astroturfed by billionaire-funded NGOs, political fandom, the revolt against adulthood, and much, much more.

    "The NPIC" by Space Commune

    "Political Fandom" by Space Commune

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    Closing Song: The Union Underground - Across the Nation x 21 Savage - Heathens (KEIFERGR33N remix)

    1 hr 17 min
  • [teaser] Visions of Heaven and Hell - 1994

    John and I watched a forgotten Channel 4 documentary on the early internet from 1994. It's a very weird message in a bottle. This is a wide-ranging discussion. We hope you like it.

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    You can watch it here: https://youtu.be/YWECt4cVfGM

    Bibliography: https://exhaust.fireside.fm/articles/p8
    Closing Song: "Neurozon" by ChemLab
    https://chemlab.bandcamp.com/album/burn-out-at-the-hydrogen-bar-2021-remaster

    4 min

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Co-hosts Emmet and John plumb the depths of history, culture, and philosophy to understand why it is that despite calamities and rapid change nothing feels possible anymore. Guests include artists,…