Back from a long break, first Jon, Brent and Ty dive into some Shapiro and more current events, then we have a conversation (recorded in late May) with Kirk and Andrew about Blackwater, Erik Prince, military contractors and the companies feeding them money and munitions.

We had the one and only David Rovics (@drovics) on to talk about his music, the state of the left internationally, a bit of a dive into capitalism a la record labels, and a retrospective on the Bush era history of energized social movements. [Intro music] - Excerpt from God's Gift To The Caliphate (1939) [Outro Music] - Kobane (The Other Side), They All Sang The Internationale (Letter to My Landlord) www.davidrovics.com www.davidrovics.bandcamp.com www.soundcloud.com/davidrovics @pfthhd politicalfuntimehappyhour[at]gmail.com

Most of the usual suspects are here this time, joined by Andrew Wacker (@Wackowski) of the Strangers & Friends podcast. We start with some recent happenings, a bit of music talk, and get into Wacker’s critique of Rothbard. On our way to a discussion about UBI and potential corporate nightmares in space, Fallon joins the regular Andrew and it’s a three-way super-podcast for a few entertaining moments. We eventually get to robots and Wacker ties it up nicely with some optimism worth listening ‘til the end for.

Kirk joins us again this episode and we start out of with the latest from Alex Jones. We just can't help ourselves, really. We circle around the latest "Battle of Berkeley" and yell a lot, get into the current events front with a grim discussion of the horizons of US foreign policy. All this and a new Pepe's report!

We start with the important stuff this time: Jenny Bertolette, VP of communications for Meals on Wheels America breaks down just how the organization works, what the latest headlines really mean, and how we can best go about taking care of our aging population. We discuss the wide-reaching effects that come from nutritional and social support of seniors and the balance of public-private-partnerships in social services. In the latter half, we revel in Alex Jones’ Russian rant, browse the comment section on the Christian Broadcasting Network website (enough said), and look into shifting attitudes about and between religious groups in the United States. Also, Eric Prince sold some shady seashells, at least we’re pretty sure…?

Billy Lawson of the Central Florida AFL-CIO comes back and somehow it not only goes better than the first time, but it actually recorded! We range from practical daily activities of a labor organizer to more abstract union futures, then wrap up with a discussion about art vs. artist, and Black Metal Nazis.

A more free ranging conversation after some lost recordings, this time the guys cover a crazy range of topics, John brings up Jesus and Ty gets drunk..

We spend most of the episode with Tiberius and, in addition to telling us about his process and progress, he brings up some great points about historical and contemporary leftist community, the problems with naming your ideologies after yourself, and even makes John momentarily question his tankie nature. But first we try to talk about the environmental impact of Trumps reign, and when that quickly becomes depressing, we'll read some AnCap comics instead and trade off Alex Jones impersonations.

This episode: Pepe's Report, David Brooks Nazi Punchin Article, a killer conversation with the one, the only, Trevor Hill (!), and the second half of our talk on the ABC's of socialism.