M&M - Marx & Medicine

a lot of talk of post-election blues, but not here folks; much to discuss & much to do as the gang returns to discuss Kamala Harris’s disastrous campaign for President and where we go from here.

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outro: love me, i’m a liberal by Phil Ochs

a BOYZ ONLY Fireside Chat on Hezb0llah & the assassination of Hassan Nasrallah

music:

alesis by Mk.gee

a whiter shade of pale by Shigeo Sekito

the gang reads a few articles and has some fun wit it

https://www.jezebel.com/health-care-workers-say-conditions-for-pregnant-people-in-gaza-are-getting-worse

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/aug/29/radical-far-left-kamala-harriss-policies-are-just-common-sense-to-most-americans

https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/1000434?form=fpf

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correction (25:17) - meant to say ‘Communist Party’ rather than PFLP, which wasn’t founded until 1967.

outro: that’s my floor by Magdalena Bay

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the gang does the obligatory post-Trump-almost-assassination coverage. for all our enemies, remember that this is also a comedy podcast in addition to a political podcast so nothing we say counts and that’s on period

today Bae leads us as we get into the wellness industry in the context of Western/Zionist imperial dominance and how colonizer frameworks undergird seemingly unrelated facets of economics, culture, and technology. who is allowed to be well? should the ability to live a safe and meaningful life rely on trite notions of individual physical & psychological consciousness, or consumer choices on the market? if so, who has access to these markets? if not, shouldn’t our goal be to overcome the entire concept of wellness and reterritorialize it onto a more historical and social stratum?

outro music: not like us by kendrick lamar

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we discuss the death of Henry Kissinger and the legacy he left behind - specifically in Occupied Palestine & Vietnam - which has made its mark in every corner of the world and endures to this day.

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outro: tin man by feeble little horse

kickstarting our ‘health and wellness’ miniseries and just in time for halloween, we discuss the deeply disturbing ‘project’ that is Bryan Johnson - a 46 year old multi-millionaire hellbent on staying young and horny forever.

as the spiritual successor to our discussion from episode 15, we break down yet another L for student loan borrowers and the Biden administration by the Supreme Court.

outro: whitehouse road by Tyler Childers

today we review some articles. first one is from Medscape, who has seemingly lost the plot with several recent, absolutely bizarre offerings. we also discuss some ‘market activity’ involving health insurance companies and hospitals - don’t you love it when the most important thing is not patient care or health worker wellbeing but stock prices for healthcare capitalist vultures? we round things out with consent manufacture and State management of homeless people with mental illness. the peasants YEARN for reinstitutionalization, thank u Eric Adams!

outro: wave by João Gilberto

well, the shootings start comin and they don’t stop comin…

in the wake of the recent mass violence event in Texas, we talk mass shootings - primarily dissecting the active ideological choice State actors make of placing ‘mental health’ at the center of bourgeois discourse regarding gun violence, mass killings, and other phenotypic manifestations of a reactionary resurgence in the US.

outro: new earth by Cass McCombs