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It’s chaos-energy as the scorpios take over the boat to talk about Eddie Munster’s latest appearance on Tucker Carlson, the latest education news out of Oregon, and Seattle’s latest upzoning controversy before things get… out of hand.

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Welcome to the inaugural episode of Ending the Myth! In this limited series Munya and Brian are going to be discussing Greg Grandin’s 2019 book, The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America. In this introduction to the show we discuss historian Frederick Jackson Turner and his Frontier Thesis. We cover material from CH 7, the Introduction, and CH 1.

Visit the Ending the Myth page for updates, sources, and suggested readings

Show music by Bjorn/Fleksor

Show art by Carl

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We are joined by friend of the show Andrew Hedden to discuss Streetwise. Filmed in 1983, Streetwise follows the lives of the kids who choose to make their lives on the streets of downtown Seattle. Beautifully shot with a deep empathy for its subjects, Streetwise humanizes the lives of the urban poor in a way that few films do. Now that it has finally been made widely available, we discuss the film’s history and the city of Seattle with a historian of the region and time.

“Streetwise/Tiny: Qualities of Life,” by Andrew Hedden for the Criterion release

“Revisiting Streetwise,” by Andrew Hedden for Real Change

“Under the Viaduct” - the anti-homeless “training” video shot by SPD in 1986

This week Greg, Brian and Cassidy are joined by a friend of the show and Canadian electoral expert to talk about the upcoming snap election happening on September 20th. With their help, we learn more about our Northern neighbors, their political parties, Trudeau’s chances of winning, who his real father is, and end with a ball-breathing semen retention session with the People’s Party of Canada.

To continue following Canadian politics from a lefty perspective:

Read: Passage, The Orca, The Tyee, https://pressprogress.ca/, https://rabble.ca/, https://thewalrus.ca/, https://breachmedia.ca/

Politicians to Watch: https://twitter.com/LeahGazan, https://twitter.com/MatthewGreenNDP, https://twitter.com/avilewis, https://twitter.com/nikiashton, https://twitter.com/theJagmeetSingh, https://twitter.com/bravo_alej

Think Tanks and Institutes: https://www.policyalternatives.ca/, https://www.broadbentinstitute.ca/, https://www.progresstoronto.ca/

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Greg, Munya, and Colin talk about what has become a completely normal American relation to their body and health before talking about the powerful forces behind mask mandate and Critical Race Theory protests in schools, how some of those dynamics are playing out in Bellevue, where Faye Yang, who is running for the School Board, has had some of her Big Ideas in Race leaked in The Stranger, and the horrors of Hurricane Katrina in the immediate aftermath of Hurricane Ida.

Watch “MAMA” assert her dominance on Twitter

Read “The Radical Capitalist Behind the Critical Race Theory Furor” by Jasmine Banks in The Nation

Read “Bellevue School Board Candidate Argues that Black and Latino Kids Have Lower IQs Due to Genetics, Cites Debunked Book” by Rich Smith in The Stranger

Read “Where I Was From” by Lauren Stroh in Oxford American

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Greg, Brian, Munya, and Colin are joined by Ceres, friend of the show and co-host of the upcoming Big Soy Naturals podcast, to talk about the Doors, their new show about the esoteric nooks and crannies of the internet, the strange history and allure of Tumblr, and much more.

Follow Ceres @commidifythis, follow @BigSoyNaturals to keep abreast of goings on with the new show, and catch up with Clout Dynasty on Twitch while you wait for the debut episode

The Big Soy Naturals illustration is by Caylie, @jd_and_company on Twitter and @jerseydevilandcompany on Instagram

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