Independence Daze

This week: Governor Pritzker shuts down indoor dining in Chicago as the city's cases spike above the 8% positivity rate and as the service industry heads into the slow season, our last election updates with record-high turnout, how the Supreme Court can steal the election for the Republicans, what the first two years of a Joe Biden would look like, the possibility and value of a independent party run, intelligence agency conspiracy theories and more. Recorded October 28, 2020. 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 this week's second hour, we cover the federal government's antitrust lawsuit challenging Google's monopoly, Google threatening the government in the competition for power, how social media picks sides and filters reality, the contradictions of right-wing libertarianism, and how we can grow our political imaginations. We got a good amount in before our battery died, so enjoy! Recorded October 20, 2020.

This week we talk about the COVID surge in Illinois, Mayor Lightfoot and Governor Pritzker passing the buck on rolling back indoor service capacities, an election update, and we go in on the nature of independent contractor work, and Prop 22 in California, an industry-written proposition to keep decide the future of gig work. Our 50th is a classic. Recorded October 20, 2020. Theme is Bayou Moon Stompin' by the Mad Conductor: madconductor.bandcamp.com

This week we talk about the candidates on the campaign trail, the admitted political assassination of a Portland protester, and more. Recorded October 16, 2020. 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 II , we discuss how technology has messed with our perception of the world, alienation, and anarchist and Marxist philosophy. Straight vibing on this one, enjoy. Recorded October 6, 2020.

our first episode of spooky season is upon us, and its the witching hour of 2020! updates from the expanding Chicago service as patio season winds down and workers are pushed to serve indoors, COVID spreads to the Trump circle and the highest levels of federal government, how the fetishizing of money oppresses us, and how building capital still doesn't make you invincible. recorded October 6, 2020. Theme is Bayou Moon Stompin' by the Mad Conductor: madconductor.bandcamp.com

This week marks the beginning of Election Seasonal Flu and we're burning up!!! We talk about the debate, Trump's taxes and the rich's art of dodging the IRS, failing infrastructure in Texas lets in a brain-eating amoeba, and are robots here to just replace us??? Recorded September 30, 2020. 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 // Our second hour we continue to talk and get into the weeds on the Supreme Court and how these lifetime appointments of all-powerful humans is actually bad for us. Recorded September 21, 2020.

This week we're talking about the leaked finCEN files and how sketchy global elites funnel their money through the banking system, the Supreme Court and how it projects political neutrality while being as corrupt as the rest of the government, and more! Recorded September 23, 2020. Theme is Bayou Moon Stompin' by the Mad Conductor: madconductor.bandcamp.com

This week we talk about the pandemic, how the War on Terror and the prison system has prepared us for mass violence, and a whistleblowing nurse exposes systemic sterilizations of migrant women at an ICE camp in Georgia. Quality is bad this week, should be better next week. Recorded September 14, 2020. Theme is Bayou Moon Stompin' by the Mad Conductor: madconductor.bandcamp.com