Independence Daze

playing loose and fun on this episode with stories from the service trenches as the city warms up, stimulus checks, UBI, truths of an artist in a money world, and more. recorded march 11, 2020. theme is Bayou Moon Stompin' by the Mad Conductor: madconductor.bandcamp.com/ Support us on our Patreon and get bonus episodes every month and access to our full archive! patreon.com/independencedaze

we're back in the studio this week talking about expanding service in Chicago, Texas going full mask-off, a planned "space hotel" and the rich's plan to ditch Earth, how the current technological innovation as we know it is actually killing us, the culture of complacency and endurance in an oppressive world, and more. recorded march 3, 2021. theme is Bayou Moon Stompin' by the Mad Conductor: madconductor.bandcamp.com/ Support us on our Patreon and get bonus episodes every month and access to our full archive! patreon.com/independencedaze

this week we're talking about the Texas deep freeze, the continuous monumental infrastructure failure in the 4th largest city in the world, billionaires building cults and more. recorded february 21, 2020. theme is Bayou Moon Stompin' by the Mad Conductor: madconductor.bandcamp.com/ Support us on our Patreon and get bonus episodes every month and access to our full archive! patreon.com/independencedaze

this week we're talking about stonks and stimmies, a collective awakening, whether or not what redditors are doing is revolutionary, more insider trading and business as usual from Congress and the new Biden admin, and more. recorded january 28, 2021. theme is Bayou Moon Stompin' by the Mad Conductor: madconductor.bandcamp.com/ Support us on our Patreon and get bonus episodes every month and access to our full archive! patreon.com/independencedaze

this week brings a really fun show! we're talking reproducing a dominant culture after reforms and revolution, what minimum wage increases mean for workers (tipped and otherwise) and dominance in the workplace, we talk about Local 202's strike at the world's largest food distribution warehouse and the power of the strike, inspiring child labor, Weimar Germany parallels and more! plus brendon says "skeptical" instead of "spectacle." recorded january 22, 2021. theme is Bayou Moon Stompin' by the Mad Conductor: madconductor.bandcamp.com/ Support us on our Patreon and get bonus episodes every month and access to our all our episodes! patreon.com/independencedaze

Get this full episode and support us by joining our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/independencedaze // on this Patreon-exclusive episode, we're talking about a new Trump labor law that will allow employers to reap $700 million in tips from workers, Lightfoot's concerning turn against service workers, essential fast food workers go on strike, and more. Recorded January 15, 2020.

Get this full episode and support us by joining our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/independencedaze // on part two we get st*ned and talk about racist conditioning in the US, individual responsibility vs. attacking structural problems, the mercurial nature of the Trump/Q cult and what exactly leads it, plus we get into it about history and go down a rabbit hole.

we're back in the new year after a break and some technical difficulties! stop the steal protests turn into a storming of the capitol and 5 dead - a riot? a coup? terrorism? festival? we try to pin down what went down january 6 in DC, who were in the riots, and what this show of force means for the post-trump near-future. recorded january 14, 2021. Theme is Bayou Moon Stompin' by the Mad Conductor: madconductor.bandcamp.com

Get this full episode and support us by joining our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/independencedaze // on part two we're talking about intellectual property law and whether or not we actually *own* the stuff we buy, class division in the celebrity class, art and Ayn Rand, speculating on how the stimulus efforts and the vaccine rolls out, what it takes to be upwardly mobile in a competitive society and more. recorded december 31, 2020.

its our last show of the year 2020 - dang! this week we're covering Bernie/McConnell showdown for $2000 checks, Section 230 and social media's responsibility for the content shared on its platforms, a suicide bomber blows up downtown Nashville suspiciously and the national media isn't covering it, we huddle into the conspiracy corner to try to find out why the media isn't covering it, and more. recorded december 30, 2020. Theme is Bayou Moon Stompin' by the Mad Conductor: madconductor.bandcamp.com