Hold No Heroes

Hold No Heroes

By Richard DoomNews
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Hold No Heroes episodes

  • Episode 12: Cancelled Culture feat. Devan Laurent

    Joining me this week is friend and fellow shitposter, Devan Laurent, to talk about cancel culture and that weird Harper's Magazine letter decrying it. 

    Devan's twitter is @devanmiller and his blog is https://nowisthetimeofmonsters.wordpress.com/

    1 hr 29 min
  • Episode 11: Back to School With Professor X
    This episode we are joined by my college History professor, Professor X, as we talk about the "isms" we adopt, whether by choice or necessity, and how both of us ended up taking a lot of things for granted in our academic years and how we came to unpack those implicit biases.
    It's a good conversation with an old friend and we bounce around from talk about the invention of "white people" to our favorite podcasts (besides this one).
    1 hr 7 min
  • Black Lives Matter
    A little explanation for why the "Political Podcast" up and fucking vanished during the most important protests in a century. 
    In Short: I was waiting to make it perfect and, lo and behold, perfect never came.
    6 min
  • Episode 09: What Is There To Like About Superheroes?
    There's something to be said about being able to articulate why it is you like what you like and I think the things I like about superhero narratives are what lead me to become a leftist. 
    *Mild Spoiler Warning* for plot elements of old seasons of Arrow and Flash.
    51 min
  • Episode 08: Mere Christianity feat. Manfred DeVox
    You could say that religion was the first fandom. This week I have my good friend Manfred DeVox on the podcast to talk about how we both started out as kinda conservative students on our way to becoming pastors, took wildly divergent paths, and somehow still ended up as Christians(with doubts) and political leftists. I don't believe religion needs to be an obstacle to progressive politics and Pastor DeVox spells out the case quite nicely. 
    Find Pastor Manfred DeVox on twitter @DevoxRev
    1 hr 38 min
  • Episode 07: "Electability" Doesn't Mean What You Think It Does feat. Leo Cookman

    Hold No Heroes goes international as I get a chance to talk with writer and young Jeremy Corbyn impersonator, Leo Cookman, about his article "What Is Electability?" and why a word that has such an obvious meaning seems to have many hidden facets. 

    If you enjoyed this conversation with Leo as much as I did then be sure to pre-order Leo's book "Time's Lie : The Narrativisation of Life" here: https://www.hive.co.uk/Product/Leo-Cookman/Times-Lie--The-Narrativisation-of-Life/24663671

    Check out Leo's other work here: https://linktr.ee/leocookman 

    1 hr 29 min
  • Episode 06: Dog Day Online
    It's 48 hours after the Iowa caucus and, while we can all agree than Bernie Sanders won, the question on everyone's lips is: Will you vote blue no matter who?
    That's right. It's everybody's FAVORITE part of the news cycle, where we ask the people with principles, "Do you have to?"
    And with resounding clarity and conviction we say: YES!
    53 min
  • Episode 05: Every Silver Lining has a Mushroom Cloud feat. Ken Culver
    Remember, like, 10 days ago when we were all pretty sure that our dumbshit president stumbled ass-first into a war with Iran? Well, I do. And, my good friend, Ken Culver and I used it as a launching point(pardon the usage) to talk about heavy topics and trying not to go insane from the weight of our stupid world, how best to express ourselves, and let others express themselves in the ways they need. 
    Notes:
    The Star Trek: Deep Space Nine character name I couldn't remember was "Vic Fontaine."
    The comic book issue I am referencing is Amazing Spider-Man vol. 2 #36.
    1 hr 10 min
  • Episode 04: The Real Villains are the Friends We Made Along the Way feat. Stevie Foxette & Jake Kilroy (Part 2)

    I'm still figuring out this whole "podcasting" thing. This here episode is part 2 of "Richard didn't plan well enough and recorded too much" where I introduce Jake and Stevie to a few villains from pop culture that might have been right the whole time. We talk about such classics as Ra's al Ghul, Mystique, and many more! 


    Episode Art by Ryan Ottley (Invincible #99)

    1 hr 40 min

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Join host, Richard Doom, and his amazing friends as we talk about things that connect more often than we realize: Politics and Popular Culture. Together, maybe we can talk about the issues of the day…